What kind of habitat did the Navajo live in?

Answer 1

They lived, and some still live, in hogans which are earth houses. It has a wood framework covered with clay forming a dome. There is always a door facing the morning sun. They have a smoke hole in the center. They have four support logs to start the building, one for each direction. They come in "male" and "female" styles. The round ( or hexagonal or octagonal) dome shaped ones that are female are the most common ones today. Most traditional ceremonies must take place in a hogan. Today some hogans are made of modern building materials. Navajo for hogan is "hooghan".

The hogan is described in the creation stories and each part has symbolic meaning. Changing Woman was raised in the first one. The earliest hogan remains have been found in the Dinetah area ( the upper San Juan river basin) and are 1100 years old.

The Navajo (The Spanish interpretation of the Tewa word for for "farmland in river bottoms" or "wide fields") people are the largest federally recognized tribe of the United States. Even in the earliest years, these hunter/gatherers lived in what is now Arizona and New Mexico and also Utah and Colorado.

Answer 2

The Navajo lived in what is now northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona. This land contained peaks, grasslands, deserts, and canyons. The Navajo were a nomadic group of people until they came into contact with the Pueblo. They adopted some of the beliefs and customs of the Pueblo including farming, making pottery, and weaving.

Answer 3

Traditional Navajo homes are called hogans. Hogans are made with a wood framework that is covered with clay. The door always faces east. The thick earthen walls keep the hogan warm in cold weather and cool in warm weather. Summer hogans were also built, simpler and more open.

Answer 4

Today, the Navajo people live in houses and mobile homes. Some live in older hogans, the traditional Navajo home. Most Navajo families have a a hogan near their homes because Navajo religious ceremonies can only be conducted in a hogan. It the Navajo family owns sheep, they may have several hogans in different places so that the sheep can be moved to different places throughout the year.

Answer 5

They live in the southwest of North America. Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, California and Northern Mexico.

Answer 6

they are log like homes with dirt floors and there walls had mug holding there walls together and microwbeans

Answer 7

They lived in hogans. Is a room houses, a cone shaped frame made from logs and bark covered in mud