Children’s Virtual Exhibit

Treasures from a Moravian Attic: Native American Objects from the Wachovia Historical Society

Southwest

Do you want to hear the words to a song sung by the Pueblo people? It goes like this:

“Rain, people, rain!

Rain all around us.

Come pouring down,

Then summer will be fair to see,

The mockingbird has said so.

Hi-ni-ni! A-hi-ni-ni!

A-ni-a! A-ha-i-hi!”

(In a Circle Long Ago, pg 77)

 

Do you know why the rain is so special to people in the Southwest? It is because rain helps maize (corn) grow, which is the most important food of Native Americans in the Southwest.