Hogans are still made and used. Traditionally there are male and female versions. The male version is also called a forked stick hogan. They are seldom seen today except for sweat lodges. They are pointed at the top and covered with earth with the door facing east. They look like a earthen cone, with a wooden logs inner structure. The female hogan is 6 or 8 sides. Some people still live in them. Many traditional ceremonies must take place in one. The door always faces east. There is never an opening to the north. It starts with four posts, one for each cardinal direction. in the past and some still are, they were covered with earth with a hole for smoke or stove in the top. This kept them cool in the summer and warm in the high elevation winters.
Today some are built with modern construction techniques. At some of the tribal health centers there are modern versions for midwives to use helping with births and for medicine men to use for ceremonies. The tribal college, Dine' College, in Tsaile has a large library that is shaped like a mirrored multistory hogan. The whole campus grounds and locations of buildings is also set out symbolically as a large hogan.
The Navajo Nation Council Chambers in Window Rock was built in 1935 is octagon shape and structural framework are meant to evoke a monumental hogan. The building incorporates the Navajo ceremonial features of an east-facing main entrance and a windowless north wall.
The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2004. It is "the only legislative headquarters in the United States owned by an American Indian tribe which has been continuously in use by that tribe and whose design incorporates indigenous materials and architectural traditions tied to the Navajo heritage."
There is no such thing as a hog bear. Even though females are called sows and males boars, just like with domestic pigs, this in no way acknowledge that bears are pigs, are related to pigs or there are so called "hog bears" out there.
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Some are moderate and some are traditional (like hogans).
the navajo lived in hogans mud sticks They were earthen houses - miranda did navajo report in 5th grade
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Hogans were used by early and tribes today for housing. they are also used for spiritual and ceremonial gatherings
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Hogans are warm in the winter and cool in the summer because of the thermal mass of the logs and earth on top. Hogans face east to greet the dawn each day. Hogans are described in the creation stories and have religious and philosophical meaning. Many Navajo ceremonies take place in hogans.
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