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| Near Tse Ho Tso, Fort Defiance, 1873 |
Dineh Wild Foods -- Voices from Tse Ho Tso
Censored News series on real life solutions to climate change, living on the land, growing food and walking
Censored News series on real life solutions to climate change, living on the land, growing food and walking
By Brenda Norrell
TSE HO TSO -- Navajo elder Howard McKinley, who lived to be nearly 100 years old, recalled how corn pollen was used in ceremonies and corn silk was used for healing teas. Navajo women sang corn grinding songs as they ground corn on grinding stones. Parched corn was ground together with pinons for nut butter similar to peanut butter.
McKinley remembered picking wild yucca bananas and wild potatoes. He remembered how blocks of frozen water from Blue Canyon were stored as chunks of ice for summer months in cut-rock houses near his home in Tse Ho Tso (Meadow between the rocks) known as Fort Defiance, Arizona.
