The Great Feast

A traditional Hopi meal

First you will eat a huge turkey, hot from the cooking pit, piki (paper thin bread made from corn and ash), appetizing antelope, some fresh melon, homemade pinto beans, corns of different colors, and Hopi’s tea. Then for dessert we will have some raw pumpkin and we will roast the seeds. Mmmmmm…..sounds delicious. Your food will be served on weaved straw baskets.

After we eat we shall call upon the Kachina Spirits to give good fortune to our people and pray for a good winter. Then the Kachina Spirits will enter the bodies of the Kachina dancers. Then we shall all dance together and have a good time. To end our day we shall let the Kachina Spirits go back to heaven and then we shall go to sleep and have a good night’s rest.