Blue Corn Tamale w/ Talavai Denipah Cook
Monday, August 17
5-6:30pm PDT . 8-9:30pm EDT
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Meeting ID: 837 2593 2031 Passcode: 445746
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ABOUT THIS CLASS
In this class we will be making tiny blue corn tamale. After the previous class which instructor Melanie David showed us corn processing, we will be taking that corn meal and making small blue corn tamale. You can attend this class just to watch and learn or you can follow along and make these tamale with us! If you are following along, please see ingredients listed below.
This class will also be accompanied by a presentation that will go more in depth about blue corn, it's meaning to Indigenous people as a sacred food source and the process of making tamale.
WHAT YOU NEED FOR THIS CLASS
If you would like to follow along you will need to following materials. This class is also fun just for watching the demonstration and cultural talk!
INGREDIENTS
Blue Corn Meal
Corn Husks
Sugar (or sugar alternative)
Filling - Cheese, Meat or Veggies
Medium - Large Boiling Pot
Mixing Bowl
Access to clean water
ABOUT TALAVAI
Unvi agandi, my name is Talavai Denipah-Cook and come from the Summer clan from Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Spider clan from Hopi, Bitter Water clan and The Charcoal Streaked Division of the Red Running into the Water clan from the Navajo Nation. Growing up in the desert of the Southwestern United States, the people, culture, and land has been a source of healing, challenges, and motivation to protect and conserve Mother Earth.Therefore, I have received a B.S in Environmental and Organismic Biology in 2016 from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. I also recently graduated with a M.S in Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science from the University of Hawai’i at Hilo. My endeavors include going back to indigenous communities to help keep ancestral lands resilient and provide land and culture-based learning programs to the youth.
About PPAK
Practicing Principals of Ancestral Knowledge
PPAK is a sustainability and life ways series that follows traditional Indigenous teachings and practices. These workshops are aimed to connect people back to living in balance with the Earth through traditional living practices of Native people. As all Indigenous cultures historically lived in balance with the cycles of nature, PPAK instructional series will incorporate these ways into contemporary teachings, demonstrations and Indigenous philosophy taught by Native community members and practitioners who have learned skills from Native elders.
ABOUT DANCING EARTH
Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations dynamically activates our mission to support Indigenous dance and related arts, to encourage and revitalize awareness of bio-cultural diversity through artistic expression, for the education and wellness of all peoples.
Dancing Earth has been named by Dance Magazine as “One of the Top 25 to Watch,” and are recipients of the National Museum of American Indian’s 2010 Expressive Arts Award. Dancing Earth recruits, cultivates, and creates opportunities for emerging global Indigenous talents in all aspects of artistic collaboration - including dance, choreography, music, costume, lighting, video, stage managing, and arts administration.
Dancing Earth gathers Indigenous collaborators, including: Nations of Blackfoot, Metis, Coushatta, Ixil and Tzeltil Maya, Papanga, Cambiva, Yaqui, Purepecha, Shoshone, Dine, Tsalagi, Hopi, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, and Keresan of North Central and South America. They balance a commitment to share dances with regional, national and international communities at venues as varied as festivals, Universities, elementary-high schools, Native wellness gatherings, youth leadership symposiums, art museums, desert canyons, dried river beds, and symposiums for social-environmental justice.
Dancing Earth inspires creativity and cultural consciousness through community art practice, energetic dance training workshops, site specific rituals and full length eco-productions.