Here is are powerpoint about the Gardeneres and Gatherers of the Southwest. There is also information at the bottom of the screen.
Cooking
The Pueblos cooking is creative and has a lot of color.
They grow four colors of different corn
They grow twelve varieties of beans that range in color
They are peaceful farmers who labor to coax
The women use a lot of their vegetables to flavor their food and use carrots so that their flavor is faintly caramel.
Hopi
The Hopi are much like the Pueblos
They are known as the peaceful of all people
The Hopi girls are taught early to bake bread
And they believe that if the girls can not make piki they are not ready for marriage.
Society
In the Hopi society the men choose their wife. One of the rules that they must follow by is that you can not marry within the same clan. When the husband or wife were married the only time they would wear their wedding clothes would be when they are being buried in the sitting position with their head between their legs.
Clothing
Their clothes are much like the Navajo. They lived in warm climate so the women wore a blanket called a manta. The men wore loose pants and a loose shirt. In the winter everyone wore blankets made of rabbit skin. They also wore leggings and moccasins.
House hold rules
The women owned the homes. The uncle normally raised her children instead of the father. The father was in charge of raising his sisters kids and were responsible for the mothers home as well as the sisters.
religion
One of the biggest parts of the Hopi religion is the Kachina gods. The Kachina was the rain gods. They believe that one of the Kachina is a spider women. Who they believe wove the clouds. During the ceremonies the men dressed up as the Kachina and danced in the plazas.
Ceremonies
The snake ceremony is the most famous of all. Then men gathered Kiva and collect snakes. The men would wash the snakes. Then after this they prayed for four days. When they were done they came out with a snake in their mouth. Then they would dance with the snake in their mouth and release them as messengers to the rain gods.
poems
Hopi Indian Prayer
Housing
The Hopi and Pueblos live in Pueblos that are made of stone and mud. They are built at a high level. They had ladders leading to the upper level.
The kivas are underground and they use them for religious reasons. In this there is a fire pit in the middle of the floor.
Tools
Arrowheads, knives, scrapers, are made of cryptocrystalline rocks. They used these tools to process corn and seed.
Pottery jars and bowls were manufactured for cooking, storing food and water
Cotton and hides were used for clothing
Baskets made of reed and yucca fiber were used for both winnowing and carrying.
Common tool was bone awl for weaving baskets.
Alphabet
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/hopi.htm
Prayer
Translation
Sources
www.omniglot.eom/writing/hopi.html
www.cabq.gov/aes/s3pueblo.html
www.languagemuseum.com/h/hopi/htm
www.inkido.indiana.edu/w310work/romac/hopi.html
Hopi
Sample- Translation Our father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on the ripened grain.
I am the gentle Autumn's rain.
When you awaken in the morning hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight,
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry:
I am not there, I did not die
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