Why is the Anasazi tribe named Anasazi?

Answer 1

The word Anasazi comes from the Navajo name for the ancestors of the Modern Pueblo peoples. The word in Navajo is: Anaasází, it means ancestors of our enemies. Anaai' means enemy or stranger. For example the "anaaji" is the Navajo ceremony for too much contact with people or things outside the four sacred mountains or for those coming bakc from war. It is often called the "enemy way ceremony". The name for the pre Pueblo peoples was picked up by Americans from the Navajo when they first came to the 4 corners area and started doing archeology inn the late 1800's.

As it says below some Pueblo groups do not now like the term. As they were their direct ancesors we should respect that. It is not however like the "n" word. No one on the Hopi rez or Zuni or other places really thinks or feels that.

Actually, no one knows. People believe that the Anasazibelieved in gods and spirits. Most dwellers of the valley and around the 4- corners region and countryside. Also, please if you do read this, don't call the Anasazi peoples the Anasazi. Recent studies show that they should formerly be called the Pre-Pueblean peoples. Anasazi is actually more of a slang term for these peoples. Anasazi is to Pre-Peublean Peoples as the "N" word is to Peoples of African descent (IE. Africans, African-Americans). Thank you so much. The Pre-Puebleans peoples were secretive and most of their artifacts were destroyed by White men such as Spanish Conquistadors and such.