Hopi Cookery - Paperback

by Juanita Tiger Kavena (Author)

More than one hundred authentic recipes center around Hopi staples of beans, corn, wheat, chilies, meat, gourds, and native greens and fruits.

Front Jacket

More than one hundred authentic recipes center around Hopi staples of beans, corn, wheat, chilies, meat, gourds, and native greens and fruits.

Back Jacket

The ancestors of the Hopis were probably among the earliest people to live in the area which is now the southwestern United States. A myth regarding the origin of the Hopi way of life describes the wandering of these people as they searched for a Promised Land.

Author Biography

Juanita Tiger Kavena applied for a teaching position on the Hopi Reservation in 1948 and, in her words, "began an adventure that will last the rest of my life." Born into a Creek family, she was raised and educated in Oklahoma in Bureau of Indian Affairs and public schools, and at East Central State College. Later, as a home economist on the Hopi Reservation, she came into wide contact with the Hopi people and became interested in their native foods. She married a Hopi man, Wilmer Kavena, and has been adopted into the Hopi tribe.