1. Native Americans of
the
Southwest
By: Darren D

2. Tribes
 For my presentation I am doing the Hopi
and the Navajo.
 Both tribes are similar and different in
their own ways
 They are both in the Southwest region

3. Shelters
 The Navajo live in a round wooden house
covered with sand called a Hogan. They
used sand to protect themselves from
hot heat
 The Hopi lived in a square adobe house
called a pueblo. The adobe protects
them from desert heat and cold winters

4. Food Sources
 was great for them cause the climate.
 They both hunted and they farmed and
there crops included corn, beans,
squash, cotton and hunted antelope and
deer.

5. Clothing
 They both used the animal skins they
got from hunting the antelope and
stitching cloth together
 But later on they had sheep to make
wool for clothes. Then they grew cotton
and went up from there

6. Everyday life
 The men farmed hunted and built.
 The woman cooked and collected berries
 The kids helped the mother with her
house work and the father or men hunt
for food.

7. Tradition and Ceremonies
 They would dance around a fire praying
to a certain God every time.
 They did their tradition at least once a
year to please there Gods
 They were both very organized about
when they would schedule the
celebration before

8. Crafts
 The Hopi and the Navajo made colored
rugs using dyes they made they also
dyed sand to make sand paintings
 They also made jewelry out of many
materials like silver, gold, polished
rocks, and crystals.
 They made polished rocks by cleaning
the rock very well with warm water

9. Miners Materials
 They both mined in deep caves for iron
and gold.
 Many of them died from the caves toxic
air and the caves collapsing.

10. Weapons and tools
 The Hopi made bows, arrows, spears,
and hoes.
 The Navajo made spears, rawhide
shields, pump drills, and rakes.
 Later the Hopi and the Navajo traded
and both learned how to make each
others items.

11. Information Source
Pictures from www.select2gether.com,
www.photographersdiect.com, www.articlesweb.org,