NAVJO INDIANS

The Native American Navajo tribe is one of the largest tribes of American Indian. They lived in the Southwest in areas that are today Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah.

The Navajo lived in hogans. A hogan was a domed shaped house with a wood frame and walls made out of clay. The door of the hogan always faced east so they could see the sun rise.

The Navajo were farmers who grew the three main crops that many Native Americans grew: corn, beans, and squash. After the Spanish arrived in the 1600s, the Navajo began to farm sheep and goats as well, with sheep becoming a major source of meat. They also hunted animals for food like deer and rabbits. They made dishes like mutton stew, fried cornbread, and even grilled prairie dog.

THE NAVAJO ORIGIN LEGEND
on the morning of the twelth day of the people washed themselves well. the women dried themselves well. the woman dried themselves with yellow cornmeal; the men with white cornmeal. soon after thr ablutions were completed they heard the distant call of the approaching Gods. it was shouted, as before, four times- nearer and louder at each repitition-and, after the fourth call, the gods appeared. blue body and black body each carried a sacred buckskin. white body carried two ears of corn, one yellow, one white, each covered at the end completely with grains.

The white ear corn had been changed into a man, the yellow ear into a woman. It was the wind that gave them life. The pair thus created were First Man and First Woman. The gods directed the people to build an enclosure of brushwood for the pair. When the enclosure was finished, First Man and First Woman entered it, and the gods said to them: "Live together now as husband and wife."

THE END!

WORK CITED

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