Making Piki Bread

[@Sduell60]

As a young teenager living in Phoenix Arizona, I once went to an exhibition where I purchased and ate a roll of piki bread. After watching this video, I now have a MUCH greater respect for all the work that went into it. That was over 40 years ago but I still vividly remember it. Thank you.

[@aFeverishFiend]

That's awesome! What does it taste like? I'm curious to know

[@kingfuzzy2]

​@@aFeverishFiendbittersweet and a tinge woody kinda like mead with tannins in it

[@kae4466]

i remember watching a cartoon called gumby when i was a kid . the particular episode was called "rain spirits ." this episode explained how the hopi made piki bread and how dependant on natural rain the farmers were . if they didnt get rain , the storyine said the hopi would starve . thanks for posting

[@OneMound1]

Yeah I remember Gumby! And his what was it a dog or a pony?

[@Chiggianya]

I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS IN FIRST GRADE!! I CAN'T BELIEVE I FOUND IT!

[@karlakirkpatrick8927]

me too

[@HeiderosesPhotograph]

THIS IS AWESOME.....I LOVE THE NATIVE AMERICANS, THEY ARE FULL OF WISDOM AND RESPECT MOTHER EARTH.......YOU ALL BE BLESSED FOREVER....:)

[@bobcharlie2337]

So cool!! Thousands of years of tradition still alive.

[@cafenightster4548]

Great video, it actually is a laborious process and skills perfected over many years. A box the size of a milk crate contains about 20 rolls which costs about $100 or $150(or traded). It tastes like a corn tortilla, without the greasyness and a very slight sweet taste. Other tribes call it newspaper bread.

[@OneMound1]

Do you eat it plain?

[@cafenightster4548]

@OneMound1 You can, some people mix it water and make a drink for hot days. Some people will dip it in coffee

[@OneMound1]

I grow blue corn. I should try this. Of course I would use a cast iron pan. I am doing a blue corn survival seed garden experiment as well. You should check it out! Thanks for your help

[@Jolene8]

Amazing documentary on piki bread! Thank you for sharing.

[@popstarrocker420]

I am an Indian from India!! I am awe struck how similar so many things and rituals we do so many millions of miles apart!! I can’t even express the feelings 💕

[@joyk5466]

Because we all lived together before we went on our migrations. We have the same respect and belief system. I'm Hopi but lost this knowledge because of colonization. I grew up in my community but was never taught these things. We were taught to hate ourselves and go to church, work, and school. Now I have to learn to live in many worlds. We will always eat piki as long as we continue to grow the blue corn. We are diverse now.

[@OneMound1]

Do you grow much corn in India?

[@OneMound1]

I grow blue corn up here in Wisconsin. Do you grow it also?

[@AlameluRao]

@@OneMound1 yes! But different kind though!! Organic as it comes!! Nothing like genetically messed up king!!

[@rebblount1926]

I had this bread a number of years ago - thank you. Its a wonderful tradition- amazing

[@keno7625]

Idk anyone that doesn't like piki. I'm Navajo from Leupp ( Neighbors):) AN I LOVE PIKI.... God bless the Hopi people an all indigenous native people of this land titled the United States. This will be our land forever!!!

[@OneMound1]

How do you eat piki ?

[@benjamingrezik373]

That's awesome smart how they use the melon seeds for oil to season the stone. I've wondered how I might do things like that without expressed oil. I have access to walnut so I think I could use that

[@hydro6en317]

Each seed contains a various amount of oil depending on the species. Walnut has a good amount of oil, so it is good to use. Mature seeds are the best.

[@benjamingrezik373]

@@hydro6en317 thank you!

[@rewolf71]

I've seen pumpkin and gourd seeds used too and those are much easier to find.

[@martinforrester8249]

I visited Hopi Land in 1992 from Shropshire in the UK. I was bought a silver inlaid kokopelli necklace that I have constantly worn ever since. It reminds me always of a very special place and people.

[@HeathenHearth]

Excellent video. Flat bread was also made on stones in Scandinavia during the Viking Age and before. I found the curing process outlined here instructive. I imagine the Nordic people's likely used pitch and/or flax seed to undertake a similar type of finishing process.

[@marilenejonez2561]

Wow!! 😀She's excellent 💫👍👍👍👍

[@demartin17]

I'm Navajo but I love piki bread!! And frybread too lol thx

[@hatsunemiku9670]

I do too, I'm hopi but I luv frybread!

[@michaelpena5206]

I like blue corn mush!!!

[@judyjohnson3486]

Thank you from my heart ❤ for sharing this information .

[@pennmuseum]

We love it too. Next time you visit the Museum, please bring us some!

[@tianamingha8632]

piki is life to us hopi

[@J.Quatsamvaya15]

Tia Namingha yes it sure is

[@gsockyma2452]

Yesss sir its gina 😆

[@diannemorgan1275]

Beautifully presented. When I was a little girl, I used to watch my great-grandmother (Navajo) prepare and make piki bread inside her small hogan. She performed the task with great reverence and grace. I was amazed of how she was able to tolerate the hot stone with her fingers. I never asked questions of where she learned how to make the piki bread. I wished I had asked. I am thankful that I was able to witness her making the bread and folding them into squares. I would help her place them into a small box for the occasion. It was always a treat to eat with our meals. I miss my great-grandmother. Thank you for sharing.

[@dolewhip3369]

The sound of the corn in the basket is soothing

[@qualqui]

Thank you dear ladies for sharing the Hopi process of making piki bread, interesting the final product looks very similar to the Beni Zaa(Cloud People)of Oaxaca, they call theirs: "Tlayudas" but are usually kept flat, about the size of a medium to large pizza, but thinner like the piki bread. Interesting to know that the Hopi women roast the corn and then grind the corn, in difference to how Mexican women do, winnowing, washing, cooking the corn in a lime solution, once cooked(coupla hours), the outer layer(tamo)is peeled away, then it is grinded, still some ladies grind the corn on stone, usually rural ladies and then cook on a ceramic or metal comal(griddle). Tlaskamati for sharing and nari jaraskiii from central Mexico! :)

[@nuvasekakuku758]

Did you know our language is related? We speak Hopi which is Uto Aztecan and is in the same language stock as Nahuatl. The mexicá are our people and we are descendants from them as we migrated north from Mexico and other parts of South America.

[@qualqui]

@@nuvasekakuku758 I didn't know that, its good to know that despite the invasion to our lands, we still honor and practice the traditions of our ancestors. Xicmotla 'palhui nopampa K'erhitaru, translation: Greetings to you on my behalf from Querétaro. The "X" in náhuatl has a "sh" sound. :)

[@nuvasekakuku758]

@@qualqui Owi Hapi! Loloma! Umu qatsi oqal'yani sopkyawat sinmuy amugëmi. Yes of course! Greetings! Prayers for a long life for you and your people! I actually have been to Queretaro! KZbin Hopi to Mexico Run for Water 2006. I am the first eagle dancer in the video with the long hair. And the runner running with the long hair.

[@qualqui]

@@nuvasekakuku758 Tlaskamati for telling me of this video on KZbin in which you appear, I will definitely check it out. Hopeful your visit to Querétaro was a blast, and that you also enjoyed the tlashcalas(flatbreads), if we buy them from a 'tortillería' that process good, 100% heritage white corn, they're way better than the ones made from Maseca, minsa or any other brand of processed nixtamal flour. Did you try the blue corn tlashcalas or maybe a tlacoyo filled with beans and red chili salsa and baked on a comal(griddle)? At present I'm subbed to a Hopi brother of yours Ankhima is his name, his lastname, I think its Honyuptuwa, I have truly enjoyed his videos of how Hopi corn, squash, beans and other veggies are cultivated. Xicmotla 'palhui nopampa K'erhitaru! :)

[@KookieChaTV]

Yum, I just had some at a wedding. it was good with my mutton soup!

[@No1PlutoSupporter]

this was in my recommended and i was surprised. im navajo and ive heard/had piki bread but i rarely ever get other native content in my feed

[@Romanhy]

This is incredible. The amount of labor and time it takes to make this bread is unbelievable. I’d like to not only try it someday, but also learn to make it the traditional way. Can any Hopi people invite me to the family cookout?

[@alexrodriguez351]

These are the real ways all humans should be living!!!

[@jonathanmalan6082]

As fun as that sounds...

[@qualqui]

@Diane Keller Traditionally the women did most of the work, the men were only kept for making babies and for protection against marauding people from other tribes or wild animals.

[@kuo-haya9200]

@@qualqui That is incorrect. The men have an important role in the hopi tribe they have ceremonies to keep the world in balance, they have dances and ceremonies for everything. The men aren't used to just make babies and protect the women. The men make the sash belts, moccasins, even the weaving of traditional regalia. They do so much more buh I can't tell you cause that is for only the hopi to know.

[@qualqui]

@@kuo-haya9200 I truly appreciate you in enlightening me, because 500 years of invasion has many of my countryfolk and me in darkness. Its good to know and the rest of us native peoples should use your Nation's fidelity to their traditions and culture, for us also to keep the ways up to date and not forget our ancestors. Nari jaraskiii(greetings in purépecha)to you from Querétaro. :)

[@pennmuseum]

Thank you! I hope to try it someday myself :)

[@pauldaystar]

Qua Quai Thankyou from Alaska Shalom

[@yadealone]

How absolutely amazing and beautiful. A heart in the food.

[@EarthREALTOR]

A great video!! I have had piki bread in the Four Corners area of the US. I would love to go out again and would sure hope to find some Piki bread!

[@marilenejonez2561]

Looks so delicious my dear...🤗

[@MickeyCuervo36]

I don't think I've got the guts to rub it on the stone by hand like that. It won't be piki, but I'd still like to give blue corn crepes a shot on the ol' cast iron griddle.

[@nuvasekakuku758]

That's a slap to the face of our ancestors. The hot stone is treated and is respected as a living human woman. She's looked upon as a provider and feeder of our women to the men. No commercial mass produced cast iron skillet griddle could ever take that from our women stones. ;

[@hatsunemiku9670]

Mmm, I had piki while I was at a dance ceremony, delicious with beans!😋

[@uekiguy5886]

Thank you. Question: Is the pitch/melon seed process only done to season a new stone or is that done every time piki is made? Thank you.

[@Your_Gal_Pal]

To season a new stone or when the old stone needs a touch up.

[@uekiguy5886]

@@Your_Gal_Pal -- Thank you so much.

[@rewolf71]

Use bone marrow or animal brains to cook with traditionally but lard is fine.

[@candicenelson4122]

I love piki just had some a couple days ago

[@isalkaisalka2698]

J’ignore pourquoi un jour je me suis décidée à cultiver du maïs Hopi blue depuis 4 ans. J’en fais de la farine extraordinaire. Il me manque le Juniperus monosperma ash introuvable ici en France.

[@harirao12345]

Wow .. how beautiful

[@jedw9496]

Wow I make blue tortillas with my Hopi Blue. One day I will try to make the Piki

[@virginiaeasterling4347]

I'm watching from my camper home in Clanton Alan a with my 2 dogs

[@BleedingNeedles]

I love piki bread!

[@caseyarkie4778]

mmmmm piki havent had some in awhile the best are the colored kind

[@ann3apr1l81]

Wow I've never tried piki bread. Good video. :)

[@carlaharris9645]

Very interesting to learn all the different ways piki is presented for different ceremonies. As a White East-coaster, I never heard of piki...do you eat it or is it just ceremonial?

[@Despitedown]

Both

[@EarthREALTOR]

I want to go visit and eat the Piki Bread again.

[@gsockyma2452]

i am scared to put my hands on it

[@rubymckinley4909]

Yummy I love this, i'am hopi and navajo.

[@alexrodriguez351]

omg that looks so good

[@kaoskewenvoyouma2712]

Ahlii, Piki, Melon and Spring Water makes the best afternoon snack...

[@hopimana22]

I want some of my godmom's piki now... I

[@jenniferwells2291]

I saw a woman making piki on tv when I was younger and I have wanted to taste it ever since.

[@Despitedown]

It's like cornflakes but the colored ones are sweet

[@BleedingNeedles]

You haven't? o: You need to get down to Arizona and track some down!

[@hypnos2794]

Ashes in the flour ? I wonder how that tastes.

[@Anna1755]

Piki is so thin it melts in the mouth. The taste? Like corn. No ash taste whatsoever.

[@Your_Gal_Pal]

It's sifted ash water that is put in the mixture not actual ashes. Ashes and water are mixed then the mixture is strained through a fine sieve.

[@1210CM]

The process of adding hard wood ashes or lime to cornmeal is called Nixtamalization. It adds to the nutritional value of corn by making it easier to digest and it brings about a great flavour in things made out of cornmeal.

[@terriynjonez8295]

Wow!!👄👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@pontiacaztec917]

Yeah remember when I was kid back in Gallup New Mexico on ceremon fairgrounds on North side me,mom,family were going see rodeo cowboys, dance of tribe's yes there was a women on side road selling piki Bread blue corn yeah it was delicious meal I have every taste it yes in my life I feel in love with piki Bread blue corn those Hopi women are beautiful lady's walk in beauty dream smoke!!✌😍🤘

[@connerfox9144]

🙏🙏🙏🌻🌝

[@amara-anngarcia2979]

Can't believe this video is posted!!! I'm at a loss of words on how I feel about this video😣😡😠😲😟

[@gsockyma2452]

Is it bad??

[@nuvasekakuku758]

Right?!

[@howardpohatu3868]

I rekon it's a great video, learn something new us Maori (NZ) eat food like this piki, awesome thanks.

[@nuvasekakuku758]

I don't think this should be posted. It's bad enough that tasavum copy and claim our hopi foods all we need now is to have this taken from our women. Piki is as sacred as the katsinam it is used to feed. Take this down!

[@azcardz1869]

Oh get over yourself! There's nothing wrong with showing this.

[@nuvasekakuku758]

It's nothing to do with me. But look and see for yourself all the tuba tasavum at the flea markets. Never were they selling as before now such things as sweet corn tamales? And the back story on them are straight out ridiculous. Such inconsistencies.

[@azcardz1869]

Maybe you should stop judging the Navajo people. No people are perfect.

[@wilsontalashoma6259]

I understand. You know some of us hopis will do things for the almighty dollar. As long as it's not you, your not selling out. Some of our traditions were never ment to be shared.

[@kesslerminerva101]

I am a shy person, so I find this difficult to write. I used to be an atheist: G-d is now a part of my life, my physical and mental health have improved greatly. And somehow I know the Hopi represent Hope for my fellow Americans in the near future, but I am worried they don't know it. Please share this information with them.

[@jacobeksor6088]

You should send letters to Vietnam government to respect Montagnard indigenous culture , return their ancestors land and stop persecution genocide if you love indigenous, indigenous live off the land that how they survive for century.

[@jacobeksor6088]

Minh Huynh everybody need good health, happy when the modern come you have to work like clock even we have luxury houses life still not happy I believe indigenous smarter than modern today.

[@vijayss4554]

modified Indian Roti.

[@onedumbbaby]

thank you for teaching me about piki bread!!

[@mahtoh7976]

Ahee ihyeh! For this awesome video Lov piki bread Hagoo ne! 🪶🇺🇸🪶🇺🇸🪶