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Traditionaly between stones. Today people usually buy ground corn from a store. However, during a girl's Kinaalda ceremony she must grind the corn with stones just as the old days for the "alkaan" cake that is eaten at the end on the ceremony on the fourth day by everyone except the girl.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 9y agoThe verb to grind small things like corn is: 'ashk'á
However, remember conjugating Navajo verbs is very complex. There is 1st, 2nd, 3rd person dual, 3rd and 4th person. Also there are many modes and aspects as well as tenses.
Corn is naadą́ą́ʼ
corn meal or flour is naadą́ą́ʼ ak'áán
The stone you use is tsé daashjéé'
Tsé daashjéé' bee naadą́ą́ʼ yishk'á shimá bá. --"I am grinding corn for my mother on a metate."
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What were the chores of the hopi?
Collect water, grind corn, hunt, protect dwellings.
What food do Navajo people eat?
Navajo people eat things like: mutton, fry bread, corn mush, Navajo tacos, sheep, lamb, and goat, kneeldown bread( from fresh corn), roast corn, roast chillies. Roast mutton and roast chillies on fry bread is very good.
How do you say corn mother in Navajo languages?
"Corn" is : naadą́ą́"it's mother" is: bimánaadą́ą́ bimá -- corn mothercorn woman :naadą́ą́ asdzáánYellow corn is thought to be female"Yellow corn home" is: Naadą́'áłtsoii bee hooghan"yellow corn girl" is: Naadą́'áłtsoii 'Át'ééd
What do Navajo people eat?
The very first Southwest Native Americans hunted mammoths until they became extinct. Then people began to hunt buffalo, also known as bison, as well as collect wild plants for food. They also learned to grow maize, or corn, that was their most common grain, which became domesticated in Mexico.
What vegetables did the Navajo make?
Corn. Corn meal mush and a kind of corn bread called kneel down bread.
What do you grind corn for?
Grinding corn is the process by which you grind your teeth when you are peaking on ekkies
How do you shell corn?
to grind up ears of corn
What machine starts with the letter q?
a quern is a simple machine that is used to grind corn. it has a lever which is used to grind corn.
What did Navajo eat for dinner?
they had corn and melons
Many tribes raised what to grind into flour?
A mano and matate were used by the Hopi to grind corn. A matate (or metate) is the large stone on which the grain is placed. A mano is a smaller stone tool (or rock) used to grind corn or other grains. It is rolled over the matate to break down the grains into a powder
How do you make corn flour for tortilla chips?
1) Grow the corn. 2) Dry the corn. 3) Grind the corn into flour. Step 3 is obviously the tough one. If you are using a grindstone, or industrial equipment, you should remove the kernels from the corn before you grind it. If not, leave the kernels on, and run them up and down a stone surface to get a coarse grind, and use a mortar and pestle for a finer grind.
How did the Navajo tribe get their food?
they hunted and grew food such as corn
What gave the men and woman life in the Navajo orgin legend?
corn
Why are windmills needed?
Windmills are needed usually to grind corn into wheat using wind-power. The main reason of using wind-power is because to grind corn needs a huge amount of energy and it would cost more to grind the corn into wheat than the actual price of the wheat. Nowadays windmills are not used and instead other ways are use to grind corn which are more power-efficient and therefore do not need much power and so can be powered from the grid
What did the Navajo do before horses?
The the Navajo grew corn and squash and hunted on foot before the horse came to the American Southwest sometime after 1540.
Can you grind the corn for the chickens to eat?
Yes, grinding or breaking the whole corn is a good idea, especially for younger chickens.
What gave the man and woman life according to the Navajo origin legend?
corn
