What customs did the Navajo learn from the Hopi?

Answer 1

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..

Answer 2

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..

Answer 3

The Navajo have been learning things from their neighbors for over 1000 years. Those neighbors have included all the Pueblo people. They probably also have had interaction with the Hohokam, Mogollon, Anasazi and Fremont cultures. Those people are the ancestors of modern Southwest people.

Most of the people of the southwest share many cultural ideas, symbols and technologies. Where any given idea came from is unclear. They all have the idea of having emerged from previous worlds. They all have sacred mountains and color associated with different directions. They all have masked dancers that embody certain deities. They all have migration stories. They modern Pueblo peoples do not all speak the same languages or even related ones so it seems these ideas spread across the area from group to group.

The oldest recognizable Navajo remains are from the upper San Juan river basin area about 1100 years ago. We know the Pueblo people in that area are related to modern Pueblo people but don't know exactly what languages they spoke or which Pueblo peoples are their direct descendants. But they must have learned some of these ideas when they entered into and began intermarrying into they various Pueblo groups.

It is thought that the Navajo learned corn, squash and bean agriculture from the various Pueblo people. Before that it is thought they were more like their cousins the other Apache groups.

It is thought that they picked up weaving techniques and elaborated on them from the Pueblo people. Among the Hopi men weave, among the Navajo, women do. The Navjo have some stories that seem to confirm this and others that have it coming from the Holy People.

In some early Navajo ruins there are Pueblo style houses mixed with Navajo style hogans. But they have lived in hogans only ever since we have had contact with them in the 1540s.

They picked up sheep raising from the Spanish and used the wool instead of the Pueblo cotton for their weaving. They made the designs after Navjo philosophy of four fold symmetry.

They picked up jewelery making from the Spanish in the 1600s and used it to exprss Navajo ideas of design as well.

Answer 4

The Navajos live very close to the Hopis. The Hopi live within the area of the Navajo four sacred mountains. They and the Navajo have lived there together for at least 900 to 1100 years. That is plenty of time to pick up ideas and techniques and customs.

The Akimel O'odham (Pima) live far away from the areas where the Navajo live. Mostly along the Gila River, Salt River, Yaqui River, and Sonora Rivers. For a traditional Navajo, to live any length of time that far beyond the four sacred mountains was to risk ones health and well being.

Answer 5

The Nez Perce lived no where near the Navajo. The Hopi people and the Navajo people live right next to each other.

Answer 6

Why Sydney’s

Answer 7

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