• February,  January

    January, February: Powamu Festival | Bean Planting Festival

    The Powamu Festival is a mid-winter event held in late January to early February celebrated by the Hopi, a Native American tribe in northeastern Arizona. The celebration lasts eight days and celebrates the return of their ancestral spirits, kachinas. It’s believed the kachinas live for six months in their mountain homes and for six months in the Hopi villages, bringing good health to the people and rain for the crops. The Powamu Festival celebrates the return of the kachinas, while the Niman Festival celebrates their departure in July. Preparations include repainting kachina masks worn by men who impersonate kachinas. The masks resemble birds, beasts, monsters, or men and completely cover…

  • Green Corn Festival
    July,  June

    June, July: Green Corn Festival

    The Green Corn Festival, Dance, or Ceremony is a Native American harvest celebration that occurs sometime in late June to early July. Creek, Cherokee, Seminole, Yuchi, and Iroquois Indians, as well as, other Native American tribes celebrate this ceremony in some manner. The ceremony is typically held during the full moon when the first corn crop is ready to harvest. The exact date cannot be determined ahead of time; it’s all up to the corn. It’s a time of thanks and forgiveness. Thanks for the crops and old grudges are forgiven. The ceremony lasts for several days. The holy man, as a symbol of health, life, and spiritual power, tends…

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