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The Navajo people live in an area between the boundaries marked by the four sacred mountains and centered around the two central scared mountains. This older central part in just south of where the emergence place is said to be and is sometimes called Dine' Tah. These boundary mountains make a diamond shape in north eastern Arizona, north western New Mexico, southern Colorado and southern Utah. It is the high Colorado Plateau, Four Corners region. The four mountains are, always starting in the east, Mt Blanca, Mt Taylor, San Fransisco Peaks and Mt Hesperus.
Both the old oral history and religious stories and the modern archeology say that this area south of the La Plata mountains in the lower San Juan river valley in northern New Mexico is where people recognizable as Navajo (as opposed to other Apache related groups) first appeared about 900-1100 years ago.
Today the Navajo Nation occupies 27,000 square miles in the western and central portion of this region. This is about the size of Holland and Belgium put together. There are 300,000 tribal members.
There are today 21 different Pueblo people. They speak 8 different languages in four different language families (depending on how you count a language vs a dialect). They are also often grouped in 2 different broad culture groups based on similarity of structure and creation myths. The majority are along the Rio Grande valley in New Mexico. The rest are the Hopi (and Tewa at Hano) at the Hopi Mesas in Arizona , Zuni, Acoma and Laguna in western New Mexico. They all have lived in more or less the same places for 700 to 1100 years depending on the tribe. Some have been there since Anasazi times others migrated to where they are now between 1200-1300 AD as the Anasazi culture changed to modern Pueblo. All of the Pueblo people have creation stories that include a migration phase and most have stories of the emergence up from worlds before this one (as do the Navajo). Some have stories of specific clans that came from specific Anasazi sites. Today there are about 35,000 - 40,000 Pueblo people in Arizona and New Mexico.
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In which area did the pueblo and Navajo people settle?
They live in the American Southwest. The Pueblo people and their ancestors have lived in this area for 2000 years or more. There are many ideas where they came from before that. It is not certain when the ancestors of the Navajo first arrived in this area and from where, but they became recognizably Navajo about 900- 1100 AD. This was in the Upper San Juan River basin area of the southwest. They have been spreading ever since.
The navajo are descendants of the native anasazi people?
For the most part, no. The Pueblo people are the cultural and direct genetic descendants of the Anasazi. When the Athabascan ancestors of the Navajo entered the area about 1100- 900 years ago they intermarried with a few of the ancestral Pueblo people Anasazi and learned and borrowed cultural practices. Some Navajo clans have origin stories of having one ancestor as being from the Anasazi or from other Pueblo people. However, it is thought for the most part, the Navajo are most closely related to the other Athabascan people like the Apache.
Why ancient cliff dwellers called Anasazi?
Anasazi is from a Navajo word: ánaasází. It means ancestors of our enemies or of the strangers (not Navajo people). It is sometimes translated now as ancient ones. When white Americans first started exploring the ruins in the 1880s they had Navajo guides and workmen. These men gave them this name. The Navajo are thought to have entered the area around 1100 to 900 years ago and would have encountered these people. When the clans moved out to the locations where Pueblo people are today, the Navajo did not occupy these sites because of cultural taboos about pollution and sickness from possible contact with the dead. But they knew and the Pueblo people knew who had lived there before and thus their name for them.
What customs did the Navajo learn from the Hopi?
The Navajo lived near the Hopi on the high Colorado Plateau and still do. The ancestors of today's Navajo arrived in the high desert area when the Hopi and Anasazi were farming there. They learned dry-land corn, beans and squash agriculture and weaving from the Hopi and other Pueblo groups. One could say that this is when the Navajo became Navajo and different from other Athabaskan people. This happened around 900 to 110 years ago according to Navajo traditional stories and modern archeology. Also, many of the Navajo clans have roots in Hopi and other Pueblo people. From the Navajo clan stories and names it seems that about 36 out of 72 clans have origins in one woman or man from an other tribal group who married in to the Navajo. This is in part because for the Navajo to marry into any of the four clans of one's grandparents (or related clans) is considered incest. Therefore there is pressure to out marry. A further reason is that after the Pueblo revolt of 1680 some people fled to and joined the Navajo, some permanently some for a while. Also, After the Hopi destroyed the Hopi village of Awatovi in 1700 some of the survivors fled and joined the Navajo in the Chinle valley area as well. The Pima (Akimel O'odham is their own name), live far to the south in low land deserts. The Akimel O'odham are thought to be descended from the Hohokam (which means "The Ancestors"). They were a sophisticated people who practiced irrigated agriculture for hundreds of years in what is now the greater Phoenix area centered on the Gila and Salt river basins. They traded with the Hopi, Anasazi, Mogollon and later the Navajo peoples but were pretty far away both in distance, culture and environment..
What tribe were thought to be descendants of the Anasazi?
The Hopi and the Pueblos.
Why do you think the Navajo learns certain custom from the Hopi rather than from the Pima?
The Navajo lived near the Hopi on the high Colorado Plateau and still do. The ancestors of today's Navajo arrived in the high desert area when the Hopi and Anasazi were farming there. They learned dry-land corn, beans and squash agriculture and weaving from the Hopi and other Pueblo groups. One could say that this is when the Navajo became Navajo and different from other Athabaskan people. This happened around 900 to 110 years ago according to Navajo traditional stories and modern archeology. Also, many of the Navajo clans have roots in Hopi and other Pueblo people. From the Navajo clan stories and names it seems that about 36 out of 72 clans have origins in one woman or man from an other tribal group who married in to the Navajo. This is in part because for the Navajo to marry into any of the four clans of one's grandparents (or related clans) is considered incest. Therefore there is pressure to out marry. A further reason is that after the Pueblo revolt of 1680 some people fled to and joined the Navajo, some permanently some for a while. Also, After the Hopi destroyed the Hopi village of Awatovi in 1700 some of the survivors fled and joined the Navajo in the Chinle valley area as well. The Pima (Akimel O'odham is their own name), live far to the south in low land deserts. The Akimel O'odham are thought to be descended from the Hohokam (which means "The Ancestors"). They were a sophisticated people who practiced irrigated agriculture for hundreds of years in what is now the greater Phoenix area centered on the Gila and Salt river basins. They traded with the Hopi, Anasazi, Mogollon and later the Navajo peoples but were pretty far away both in distance, culture and environment..
Why do you think the Navajo learned certain customs from Hopi rather than from the Pima?
The Navajo lived near the Hopi on the high Colorado Plateau and still do. The ancestors of today's Navajo arrived in the high desert area when the Hopi and Anasazi were farming there. They learned dry-land corn, beans and squash agriculture and weaving from the Hopi and other Pueblo groups. One could say that this is when the Navajo became Navajo and different from other Athabaskan people. This happened around 900 to 110 years ago according to Navajo traditional stories and modern archeology. Also, many of the Navajo clans have roots in Hopi and other Pueblo people. From the Navajo clan stories and names it seems that about 36 out of 72 clans have origins in one woman or man from an other tribal group who married in to the Navajo. This is in part because for the Navajo to marry into any of the four clans of one's grandparents (or related clans) is considered incest. Therefore there is pressure to out marry. A further reason is that after the Pueblo revolt of 1680 some people fled to and joined the Navajo, some permanently some for a while. Also, After the Hopi destroyed the Hopi village of Awatovi in 1700 some of the survivors fled and joined the Navajo in the Chinle valley area as well. The Pima (Akimel O'odham is their own name), live far to the south in low land deserts. The Akimel O'odham are thought to be descended from the Hohokam (which means "The Ancestors"). They were a sophisticated people who practiced irrigated agriculture for hundreds of years in what is now the greater Phoenix area centered on the Gila and Salt river basins. They traded with the Hopi, Anasazi, Mogollon and later the Navajo peoples but were pretty far away both in distance, culture and environment..
Is native people capitalized and is pueblo village capitalized?
Native people Is not capitalized in a sentence if you're just talking about a group of people that are indigenous to an area. Pueblo village is also not capitalized unless you're talking about a village in Pueblo, Colorado. Here are some examples. Pocohantos was a member of the native people in the area. It was getting hot in the pueblo village. The default rate in this Pueblo village is the highest in Colorado.
The people settled this area because they were separating from the church of England?
The people settled this area because they were separating from the Church of England?
What is the area of Pueblo Libre?
The area of Pueblo Libre is 4,380,000.0 square meters.
What is the area of Pueblo Zoo?
The area of Pueblo Zoo is 121,405.692672 square meters.
What is the area of Navajo Lake?
The area of Navajo Lake is 63.131 square kilometers.
