Southwest Indians

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Southwest Indians

By: Andrew, Blair, Kayla, And Brooke

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Way of Survival

Hopi: Pueblo houses, farmed, stored food.

Apache: fighters, hunted, gathered food, stole from Pueblo, made permanent houses.

Navajo: fighters, Hunted, gathered food, stole from Pueblo, mud covered log Hogan.

Pueblo: They used ladders to protect themselves, lived in pueblos, lived by rivers, farmed.

Zuni: like the Pueblo-Indians.

Most of the Southwest Indians were farmers.

Most of them stayed in one place and made permanent homes. They could grow large crops this way.

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Food

The Southwest Indians ate Buffalo, Chuckwalla “Lizard” and Fish.

They also ate wild plants and wild seeds.

They grew corn, maize, melons and common grain.

They would find nuts and roots and eat them some times.

There most common food was buffalo, fish, and grown food.

They ate strange food like chuckwalla “ lizard” and wild plants.

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Homes

They lived in tepees

In underground homes

The Navajo lived in a mud covered Hogan

Very dry plains

Mud homes

Cliff dwellers

Stone homes

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Interesting Facts

They used dolls for religious meetings.

They made pottery for drinking and bowls.

They used baskets for the corn in their crops

They did ancient paintings for decoration.

They painted rattles like turtle shells.

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