Can you start a fire with your bare hands? While at Crow Canyon High School Field School (HSFS,) you will have the opportunity to experience numerous aspects of Puebloan life and culture. This is called the lifestyles program. Crow Canyon and visiting educators demonstrate both ancient and modern Puebloan activities. Different Native American visitors come to Crow Canyon and share their own experiences, and we visit museums to see examples of Native American artifacts.

Fire-starting is one life skill that you may acquire at Crow Canyon. Another activity you may practice is atlatl-throwing. The atlatl was the precursor to the bow and arrow. We also learned about corn grinding and roasting. These food processing traditions are still enacted in modern Pueblo households. Using a mano and metate, we ground dried corn into cornmeal, just as the ancestral Puebloans would have done a millenium ago. Becky and Paul, two Crow Canyon educators, taught us about beading and pottery making.

We learned how to do many of these activities in the Crow Canyon Basketmaker pithouse. This replica pithouse was made around 14 years ago on the Crow Canyon campus. It looks a lot like what archaeologists think early pithouses might have looked like. In all, the lifestyles program gives students a better understanding of Pueblo life than they could ever get from any textbook!

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~ See Our Smiling Faces ~ Glossary ~
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