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Hogans are made of logs, branches and earth and sometimes stone. There are tree and dirt almost everywhere on the Navajo Nation. The elevation in from 5000- 10,000 feet. There are pinon pine, juniper, white fir, Engleman spruce, blue spruce, Douglas fir, corkbark fir, ponderosa pine, quaking aspen, cottonwood, and Gambel oak on the Navajo Nation.
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Why did the Apache not build hogans like the Navajo?
The Apache are a group of related people but the live in different places, climates, ways and their languages are different. The Navajo are related to them. Some Apache did make hogans. They also made kowa and wikiups and the Plains and Lipan Apache used tipis. In general, a hogan is a much more permanent home and takes a lot of time a materials to build. The thick walls are good for keeping warm in the high altitude winter and keeping cool in the summer. The Navajo are people who keep sheep and goats and raise corn, squash and beans. They mostly live at between 5000 and 8000 feet in elevation. Hogans are useful in this climate and because they stayed near their fiends except when moving herds to higher pasture. Also hogans have important religious significance. Many Apache bands lived a more mobile lifestyle so other types of houses were more useful.
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It is thought that the Navajo learned to grow corn beans and squash from the Hopi and other Pueblo people and from their ancestors, the Anasazi. Corn has been central to Navajo life for as long as they have been Navajo and not like other southern Athabascan peoples. It is also thought that Navajo learned to weave cotton from the Hopi and the same other groups. Among the Hopi men are weavers and among the Navajo mostly women weave. The Navajo then adapted this to weaving wool after the late 1500s and elaborated the designs to reflect Navajo philosophy. By the 1700s their weaving was famous and valued with tribes far away in the northern Great Plains
How do you the Navajo people build their homes?
they built it in New mexico, and Arizona. Houses are called hogans
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Why did the Apache not build hogans like the Navajo?
The Apache are a group of related people but the live in different places, climates, ways and their languages are different. The Navajo are related to them. Some Apache did make hogans. They also made kowa and wikiups and the Plains and Lipan Apache used tipis. In general, a hogan is a much more permanent home and takes a lot of time a materials to build. The thick walls are good for keeping warm in the high altitude winter and keeping cool in the summer. The Navajo are people who keep sheep and goats and raise corn, squash and beans. They mostly live at between 5000 and 8000 feet in elevation. Hogans are useful in this climate and because they stayed near their fiends except when moving herds to higher pasture. Also hogans have important religious significance. Many Apache bands lived a more mobile lifestyle so other types of houses were more useful.
Why did the Navajo build hogans in the desert?
Most of the Navajo Nation is at the elevation of between 5000 and 8000 feet. Some mountains are 10,000ft. It is cold with snow in the winter and it gets cold at night. Hogans are warm in the winter and cool in the summer because of the thermal mass of the earth on top of the log structure. In places where it got too hot during the summer in the daytime, people built brush shade shelters or ramadas called chaha'oh.
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The Navajo people did not live in "huts". The lived in log homes called hogans in English and hooghan. The two o's make it a longer O and the gh is a sound made in the back of your throat. Hogans always face east and are generally 6 or 8 sided or sometimes round. The log roof dome is created by corbeling of the logs. Mud or earth is used to plaster the gaps between logs and to cover the whole roof to make it warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. The is a smoke hole in the center or now days a stove pipe. They are still used by some people today are are also used for traditional Navajo ceremonies. Sometimes today they are build with modern American building materials. The library at Dine' College is built as a two story mirrored one and the Tribal Counsil chambers is also shaped like a hogan. Each part of the hogan has symbolic meaning and is described in the stories about Changing Woman.
