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Did the Navajo hunt farm of both?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Both.

The earliest oral history and archeology of the Navajo show them growing corn beans and squash and living in hogans in widely separated homesteads. It is thought that their ancestors learned this from the neighboring Pueblean peoples about 1110 -900 years ago. Before that they lived more like other western Apachean groups. They also hunted for wild game. It is not thought they raised turkeys as the Pueblo groups did.

Soon after the Spanish brought sheep, horses and cattle in the 1540s they raised sheep. Sheep are now very culturally important, perhaps as much as corn. Cattle were never as popular. Other crops such as peaches, chilies, and melons came with in the 16th century as well and became important crops. Today the Navajo Nation has some of the largest irrigated farms in the US and on a smaller scale, some people still raise sheep, goats and corn, beans and squash.

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11y ago

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