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.