Southwest Natives

1
Southwest Natives

• By Nemo, Big Deal Team Straus, Team Straus
  Maniac, Larry Boy

2
Southwest Art

• The art might have helped the women mostly.
• For example, the baskets couldve helped the
  women by holding the crops.
• The jewelry, drums, and masks are for the
  cerimonies.
• The masks are animals or mythical creatures.

3
Southwest Food

• Southwest hunted animals like mammoths, buffalo,
• ate and grew corn, which became extinct!
• Their foods are deer, rabbit, nuts, squash seeds,
  mustard seeds, and pinto beans!

4
Southwest Climate and Environment

• The Anasazi lived on a mesa which is a land form
  made of rock.
• They built their home on the side of the mesa!
• Each family had at least two rooms.
• The climate of the southwest is very dry!!

5
Southwest Clothing

• They also got there clothes from
• animals skin.

The clothing back then came from a colorful wool
blanket.
6
Southwest Shelter

• The Anasazi Americans of the Southwest lived out
  of structures made of semi-circular masonry
  bricks and stones.
• Navajo would use teepees to avoid the rain!

7
Southwest Culture

• There were two groups of Native Americans
• The Anasazi were called Cliff Dwellers
• Their culture is kept through cerimonies! They
  had them for many different things! Ex Marriage
  or Death!

8
Our Southwest

• Southwest is very nice, it has foods like squash
  an many more!
• They had very many cerimonies for a lot of
  things Marriage and many more!
• Their houses were called teepees and Hogan!
• Much of their land is a desert!