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Whether you call it The Great Pumpkin or All Hallows Eve, Halloween is an institution (not to mention an industry) throughout the U.S. In order to get a better sense of how generations past might have celebrated the holiday, Roving Reporter Stan Wharton went to the Museum of the San Ramon Valley and asked Tassajara Hills fourth graders How do you think the Miwok Indians would have celebrated Halloween?
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Dana Rose Wong: They would have a festival where they would play music and dance. They would also dress up like with fur coats. -
Ethan Wilkinson: I’m sure they would put on masks, but I’m not sure what kind, and maybe some kind of skins. They probably would make something that tastes good for a special treat for their kids. -
Marcella Giaramita: I think they would go to their huts and scare away all the evil spirits that they didn’t like. They would also make a big feast and celebrate their survival. -
McGuire Chang: They probably would have done a tribal dance and cooked an acorn meal with berries in it for a special treat. -
Raquel Montelindo: They would dress up like birds and animals, and they would trade with each other like “Trick or Treat.”
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Dear Editor and Stan,
These children very closely described the origins of Halloween in ancient Celtic festivals that celebrated their ancestors in a feast at “Summer’s end and the coming of darkness”. It was simply an early new year’s celebration for the Irish’s ancestors as the time of darkness was seen as renewal for the next year’s planting and harvest.
Great Story, Happy Nevada Day
Hal
I have a feeling the Miwok probably celebrated Halloween by not doing anything and not knowing what it was because they were Miwok, not immigrants to America from the British Isles. But good guesses, kids!
I like the kid’s answers!
But the International Candy Confectionary Society is very insistant upon the idea that the Miwok would have passed out big chocolate “Miwok huts” filled with little chocolate bunnies and soft-filled candy eggs (oh, and also those Corn Kernel candy things).
What a great question! This is exactly the kind of critical thinking that sharpens minds and expands awareness. JMHO
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