Native Americans

Navajo

Apache

a member of an American Indian people of New Mexico and Arizona. Half of my family is Navajo

Apache is a native tribe located in Arizona New Mexico and Oklahoma. My other half is also half apache

pueblo

was the building structures the Anasazi used. I went to the pueblo ruins

Anasazi

culture

Dry farming

Kachina

another term for dryland farming.


a member of an ancient American Indian people of the southwestern US, who flourished between c. 200 BC and AD 1500. The earliest phase of their culture, typified by pit dwellings, is known as the Basket Maker period; the present day Pueblo culture developed from a later stage.

the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively


a deified ancestral spirit in the mythology of Pueblo Indians.

Hogan

a traditional Navajo hut of logs and earth.

Metate

Mesa

an isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides, found in landscapes with horizontal strata.

a flat or slightly hollowed oblong stone on which materials such as grain and cocoa are ground using a smaller stone.