Most of these groups never aided each other. The Ute raided the Navajo for slaves to sell to the Spanish in Santa Fe. The Apache and Navajo are linguistic cousins but did not work together. The Navajo sometimes traded with the Hopi and other Pueblo groups and other times raided and fought with them.
The Navajo assimilated many cultural ideas and practices from the Pueblo peoples and made them their own. The Paiute to this day make ceremonial baskets used by the Navajo. There are seen to be too many cultural taboos to follow to do them right by many Navajo.
The Comanche had a kind of hegemonic empire and didn't cooperate or aid anyone. The Kiowa were a plains people and only would have had much contact with the Navajo except perhaps trading in places like Santa Fe. The Kiowa and Comanche sometimes had an alliance. The Kiowa- Apache ( an offshoot of the Apache) lived near and like the Kiowa but did not speak Kiowa rather used sign to communicate.
In sum, all of these groups lived in somewhat overlapping areas but would not be seen as "aiding" each other at most times.
There are the various pueblo people, the Navajo, Ute and Apache.
The Navajo (Diné) did raid neighboring tribes such as the Pueblo (Hopi, Zuni, Tewa and others), Ute, Paiute (for slaves), Comanche, Kiowa and sometimes the Apache. They were also known as notorious raiders against the spanish and Mexican settlements in New Mexico.
The south-west desert regions of Arizona, New Mexico and southern Colorado were occupied by the many Apache tribes, the Yavapai, the Navajo, the Pueblo tribes, the Ute, the Comanche, the Chemehuevi, Cocopa, Havasupai, Hualapai, Maricopa, Mohave, Southern Paiute, Pima, Yuma, Yaqui and Halchidhoma tribes.
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The word "Navajo" comes from a Spanish adaptation of the Tewa Pueblo word navahu'u, meaning "farm fields in the valley." They were called Apache de Nabajo meaning "the apache group that farms". Navajo are cousins of the Apache. Some of the words are still similar between the two. Tewa are a neighboring Pueblo indian group. Dine' means "people"
When you trade, you also share cultures and idea. The Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache is a good example for that. The Navajo and Apache group were nomadic, meaning they were hunter-gatherers. They have come to the Southwest region later than the Pueblo. They traded the food they gathered and hunted, like cactus, roots, and pinon nuts for crops that the Pueblo had grown. Over time, the Navajo adopted farming and other Pueblo practices.
The major Native American nations in New Mexico are Navajo, Pueblo, and Apache peoples.
We don't know who their enemies were before the Spanish arrived in about 1540. The word in Navajo for corn means enemies food or strangers food. The word for non Navajos is the same so we don't know if the ancestral Pueblo people were enemies or not. The word Anasazi can mean enemy ancestors or strangers ancestors as well. We do know they gained many skills and cultural ideas from the Pueblo so not all could have been fighting. By the 1600s the Spanish were the largest enemy. They created a market for slaves and tried to control Navajo land. Because they wanted slaves and would pay well for them other tribes raided the Navajo for slaves. The Navajo also raided the Pueblo and Spanish colonies. But they also traded with and inter married with the Pueblo people and some Spanish. By the late 1700s there was constant raiding and slaving attacks. The Ute and Comanche allied with the Spanish. It is estimated that during the early 1800s more than 66 percent of all Navajo families had experienced the loss of members to slavery. When the area became part of Mexico they became an enemy as well. Lastly, the area came under US control and the US army was their enemy
Not really in there way the word is usually meant, ( two or more governments or tribal groups that agree to fight and protect each other). The Navajo traded with and intermarried at times and visited all the Pueblo people in the area such as the Zuni, Hopi, Acoma ,Zia, Jemez, Taos, Laguna. But the also raided them at times too. They have much in common with their linguistic cousins the Apache groups that live near them. There was back and forth with trade and marriage and cultural ideas with the Western Apache. The Ute, Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache and Mescalero Apache conducted slave raids against them for at least 150 years. The sold the slaves to the Spanish for horses. The Navajo conducted counter raids against them and the Spanish too. The Southern Paiute have lived near them for centuries and today produce most of the baskets that are used for traditional ceremonies. They had contact with the Hualapai, Yavapai and Havasupai and others but were neither allies or enemies.
The major Native American nations in New Mexico are Navajo, Pueblo, and Apache peoples.
There were several Native American tribes that were located in the southwest, including large areas in places such as South Dakota and Arizona. Some of the tribes include the Apache, Navajo, Hopi, and Tewa.