New Mexico Tourism | Native American

Events: Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, Gathering of Nations, Santa Fe Indian Market, tribal feast days, Zuni Harvest Festival
Dances: corn dance, buffalo dance, deer dance, Matachines dance
Food: fry bread, grilled corn, oven bread

Zuni Harvest Festival

Prior to the coming of the Europeans, the Zuni people were skilled and successful farmers. Their villages and fields were situated in the best areas for cultivation of their crops. They originally grew corn, beans and squash. Later, they added European crops such as wheat and peaches. One type of garden they cultivated was the "waffle garden". Waffle gardens were built close to the village and the river and were a type of "kitchen garden".

Zuni Pueblo
P .O. Box 1009
Zuni, NM 87327
(505)782-7238
www.ashiwi.org/