Put the title of your tribe here

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Navajo Indians
Navajo
Navajo
The most skilled hunters got their game while
others failed.
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Homes/Villages

• The Navajo built dome base homes/houses called
  Hogans.
• The Fork Stick Hogan was built of three
  supporting poles. It was covered in brush, and
  mud. The door faced the East to welcome the early
  morning sun!

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Homes/Villages

• Later on, the Navajo Indians built more permanent
  homes made of log and chinked mud.
• When it was extremely humid some Navajo families
  moved to temporary homes/houses or shacks with no
  walls, only a roof.

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Food

• The Navajo Indians switched to livestock,
  therefore increasing their herds.
• Livestock had now become a big part of the
  Navajos life, but they still continued to hunt.
  They hunted rabbits, deer, antelope, and mountain
  sheep.

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Food

• The Navajo also planted small gardens aside from
  hunting and raising cattle. When they did hunt,
  the Navajo men sometimes traveled long distances.
• The main foods of the Navajo Indians were meat,
  corn, and wild plants.

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Clothing

• The Navajo Indians were taught to weave cotton
  and wool by the Hopi Indians.
• Both men and women wore sandals, leggings, and a
  woven yucca blanket.

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Clothing

• Navajo men wore a woven yucca breach cloth and
  women wore short skirts of the same materials.
• Women of Navajo tribes usually wore hand woven
  rectangular pieces of cloth called mantas. They
  would tie it over their shoulders and waist.
  

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Location/Enviorment

• The Navajo Indians lived down in the Southwestern
  parts of the United States.
• The Navajo Indian Reservation covers the four
  corners of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New
  Mexico.

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Location/Enviorment

• Southwest of the Chama Valley is where the Navajo
  home is located. The Chama Valley is arid and
  inhospitable to trees and animals.

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Weapons for Hunting and Fighting

• The most important weapon in the Navajo inventory
  is the bow and arrow. The Navajo and Apaches
  introduced a newer kind of bow to the
  Southwestern area. The bows could be up to four
  feet (0.9 to1.2m) long. The self bow was made
  from one piece of wood. The first choice for this
  bow is mulberry wood. The bowstring was made from
  the sinew of deer.

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Customs Beliefs and Religon

• The Navajo and Apaches have their very own way of
  how life started.
• Among Navajo and Apaches it is nearly impossible
  to tell the difference between their regular life
  and their religion.

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Customs Belifs and Religon

• Religion for the Navajo is very important. A
  Navajo girl scatters corn meal as a morning
  prayer.
• One of the most important ceremonies was the
  Healing Sing.
• from Apaches and Navajo pg.23

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Roles of Children

• When children were old enough, they were expected
  to work. They worked and believe me there was no
  monkeying around!
• The boys of the Navajo tribe were taught to hunt.
  They were taken on hunting and raiding trips but
  werent allowed to fight.

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Roles of Children

• The very first jobs of the children included
  dressing and gathering wood for fire. As the
  children learned the skills of every day life,
  they were taught of their culture.
• Girls were to learn many tasks that were required
  to provide for their family. It included learning
  about plants, and their uses.

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Interactions with the Europeans

• By time of 1680, the Spaniards established all
  around the Rio Grande river in what is presently
  New Mexico.
• In 1865, the U.S.A army defeated the Navajo
  people. Over 9,000 Navajo were sent as prisoners
  to Fort Summer, New Mexico, about 300 miles away.
  

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Leadership and Goverment

• In the original Navajo law, they traditionally
  never had a government.
• The Tribal Council of the Navajo was an elected
  council of twelve members- two from each tribe.

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Leadership and Goverment

• They set up agencies within the reservations to
  serve the needs that the Federal Government did
  not meet.

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Arts and Craft

• The best of the Navajo bow cases were made of
  lion skin.

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Arts and Crafts

• Silver necklaces were inlaid with turquoise
  stones. They were made by a Navajo silver smith.
• A Serape is a rug made by Navajo weavers like
  this. The weavers always made an unnoticeable
  error, because being perfect was for Gods.

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Bibliography

• Susan Stan. The Navajo. Vero Beach, Florida
  Rourke Publication inc, 1989.
• Leigh Hope Wood. The Navajo Indians. The United
  States Chealsea House Publisher, 1991.

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Bibliography

• Elvin Wolfs. From Abenaki to Zuni, New York, New
  York Walter and Company,1988.
• Craig A. Dorthy and Katherine M. Dorthy. The
  Apaches and Navajo Franklin Watts,1989.

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