The Significance and the Foods of Hopi Corn

Abstract

I have created this curriculum to educate our young three better–5-year-old children to help be productive to the elderly. Also, to help them with the Hopi language. They will gain the skills to be a productive member of the village. It takes a village to raise a child, which is the same for plants. It is also called sumiunagwa (helping one another). Not all families plant, so this would give the children a chance to learn a new skill. The uncles are the ones who play a big role in a child’s life, but not all children have that person. The whole breakdown of the village is because of alcohol and drugs. I hope to be a person to influence their lives positively. Later in their lives, they may cook for their grandparents and remind them of the foods they used to eat. I have had this experience; my bother would always ask me to cook a particular dish. I learned it from the elderly center we frequent in grade school. There they would teach us how to make some Hopi foods, and we would even go out into the public to pick wild greens and cook them.