THE SOUTH WEST

GEOGRAPHY

• Northern Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, south Colorado and Utah, western Texas
• Sonora Desert, the Colorado Plateau, some of Rocky Mts, San Juan Mts, Eastern Plains
• Temperature ranges: 44 (winter) to 105 (summer)
• Usually pretty dry and hot

EFFECT ON DAILY LIFE

• Farming was not main way of life
• Geography for protection
• Exploiting
• following animal herds
• Settled near water

PRE COLOMBIAN TIME

• In pit dwellings (partially underground)- due to heat of desert
• Lived on cliffs or canyons for protection
• Developed a ceremonial chamber from living room of pit dwellings
• Cultivated corn, beans, squash, cotton, and tobacco
• Traded cotton textiles and corn for buffalo meat from nomadic tribes

CONTINUED

• Pueblo, Hopi, Uto-Aztecan, Apache
• Had a pastoral
• Agriculture highest of area
• Made baskets and pottery
• Hunted with spears

POST COLOMBIAN TIME

• Became fierce fighters
• Turned to raiding
• Stole goods and livestock- sold
• Physically tough

CONTINUED

• Pueblo Revolt- 1680
• 1848- Forced into reservations
• Many died of disease

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