Lifestyles

Week Three Lifestyles: Modern Pueblo (Hopi) Lifestyles

For week three Lifestyles, we had two very special guests come and teach us about the lifestyles of modern Pueblo peoples. Jane and Eric Polingyouma, elders from Third Mesa at Hopi in Arizona, taught us how to cook traditional parched corn and how to make our own bullroarers. Everybody agreed that parched corn is even better than popcorn: we just couldn't cook enough! Bull roarers are traditional Hopi toys and are also used in certain ceremonies. When you spin it, it makes a loud sound like a bull!

Jane Polingyouma teaches the students how to make parched corn up at the Pueblo

You need to get the sand in the pot very hot before you add the corn kernals

Keren tries her hand at stirring the corn over the fire

Salt is added by dipping a corn cob in water and spreading it on the kernels

Look, smoke is rising from the Pueblo chimney from all the cooking

Everybody passes around the parched corn

"Lifestyles helped me see another culture with some perspective of their entire history and at a level of more depth than I'd ever had before."
- Kelsey

Jane instructs Anne

Anne prepares to seive out the kernels from the sand

Eric Polingyouma demonstrates how to make a bull roarer

You need to carefully round the edges and file down the sides

Anne uses her file to finish the edges of her bull roarer

Mariah uses a utility knife to shape her corners

Lisa tests out her bull roarer

Kali and Emily look back at campus and the Sleeping Ute from the tower

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