z4Southwest



 ** Southwest Native Americans  The Hopi Indians come from a group in the southwest called the Pueblos. Hopi means good, peaceful, or wise. They call themselves Hopitu, which means ‘The Peaceful People’. They speak the Shoshonean language. They lived in pueblos made of stone and mud. They could be several stories high. In their homes they had under ground chambers called Kivas for religious ceremonies. They used them for one hundred years. Some tribes spoke their own language, had their own religious customs, and laws they followed. Most people became farmers and lived in villages.     ** Daily life  Women and men had different jobs they had to do. Women owned the home and the land and cooked and weaved. Men had it a little harder. They had to plant, harvest, weave cloth, and perform the ceremonies. When a child is born, the family is given a perfect ear of corn and a blanket. Twenty days after, the baby is taken to a mountain and when the sun hits the baby the child is given a name.  Food  The southwest Native Americans ate mammoth, until it became extinct. After, they hinted buffalo and collected wild plants. They grew corn, beans, squash, melons, pumpkin, and fruit. Corn was their best food. Corn growth was something everyone participated in. Women used a flat rock called a mano to grind corn. They used that to make corn mean fine. The men gathered the corn. They usually did most of the farming and everyone worked together.  Clothing  The clothes the southwest Native Americans wore depended on what they did. They wore very little clothing because of the warm climate. They wore flowers with paint and feather headdresses. Also, they wore diff. clothing worn to signify their fighting skills. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; msoasciifontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msohansifontfamily: Calibri;">Kachina Dolls <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Kachina dolls were carved out of wood from the Zuni and Hopi trees. They clothed the dolls in masks and costumes to look like the men who dress as Kachina spirits. The dolls were given to children to teach them to identify the different parts of Kachina dolls, and the parts they play in tribal ceremonies. **Art** [|Click Here To See A Video Of Pottery] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The Navajo wore earrings before marriage, after they attached them to bead necklaces until their own daughters were old enough to wear them. Turquoise is mind by the Southwest tribes, its is the stone of happiness, health, and good fortune. They used turquoise to make jewelry. They made pottery, cloth, and baskets. The art used symbols and signs to represent their ideas, beliefs, dreams, and visions. Pottery was used everyday for cooking, storage, bathing, and religious ceremonies. For the religious ceremonies, the pottery was painted and designed with things that tell a story.



<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="color: black; display: block; msoasciifontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msohansifontfamily: Calibri; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: white; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: background1;"> <span style="background: #5be1d8; color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1;"> Location <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The southwest Native Americans come from the states, Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Colorado, and the northern part of Mexico. Their land was desert and crowded with cactuses. Tribes that came from the Southwest area were Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, and Zuni.

<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: background1;"> The southwest Native Americans come from the states, Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Colorado, and the northern part of Mexico. Their land was desert and crowded with cactuses. Tribes that came from the Southwest area were Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, and Zuni. <span style="background: #3be8ab; color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1;">Religion <span style="color: white; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: background1;"> <span style="background: #0069ff; color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1;">They believe that the fourth world is sacred and the first people created in the cave below the surface of the earth and then climbed through two more caves with creatures until they reached the surface. The hole they <span style="background: #0069ff; color: #07ff00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> climbed through was called sipapu which was the hole humans were born from.