DAY 4: ANCIENT FINDS. ANCIENT ANCESTORS

We started out the day by preparing to go to the Zuni Visitor Center. We went to look at the history of the Zuni enriched in pottery, practices, and artifacts along with seeing a documentary film about the Zuni in the Visitor Center. We then traveled to the ruins where we observed many pottery shards and arrowheads where the Zuni people originally settled. 

 

Later in the day we split into groups: one headed to the Zuni senior center and one at a Zuni head start program. In the head start we aided the teachers for their lessons and interacted with the kids. In the senior center we learned about their stories about their roles in the Zuni tribe. One of them was a man named Edward who told us about the community’s river which dried up within the last 50 years. Edward suggested that with the drying of the river many of the traditions and stories also dried up however, many were recorded through documentary and books. We ended the day celebrating Aimee Stone’s 18th birthday with Granny Smith apple s’more cake.