Hisatsinom - "The Ancient Ones"

Hopi people use the term Hisatsinom, meaning "ancient people“, to describe their ancestors who lived within the Sedona and Verde Valley areas. Archaeologists have used the term “Sinagua” – coined in 1939 by archaeologist Harold S. Colton, founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona, from the Spanish words sin meaning "without" and agua meaning "water", referring to the name originally given by Spanish explorers to the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff, the "Sierra Sin Agua".