Wickiups had rounded wood frames covered with grasses. Tepees had cone shaped frames covered with animal skins.

Tribes near rivers mixed clay, straw, and water to make adobe bricks. Tribes that lived on mesas carved stone bricks.

Have lived in the dry southwest for over 11,000 years.

Pueblo Corn Dance celebrated good harvests and thanked the earth for their food. Prayed to kachinas for rain and a long life. Apache Sunrise Ceremony honored a girl becoming a woman.

Family groups were called clans. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncle and children lived together. Chiefs and spiritual leaders made decisions.

Winters were too dry to grow fresh food. Dry corn was kept for the winter. Also gathered wild vegetables and berries, cactus fruits and hunted deer and rabbit.

soft animal skins and soft treek bark were used for some clothes. The Navajo and Pueblo made clothing out of cotton and wool.

hunters traded for food and farmers traded for skins. they also shared skills such as farming and weaving.

Patol was a game where players tossed marked sticks and guessed how they would land.