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Why did horses become so important to the Navajo and apache people?
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∙ 13y ago
I have yet to hear about a tribe that did not value the horse. Horses equated into power. Survival was easier with the horse. Hunting, waging war, being able to outrun a preditor.
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When did the Apache ride horses?
Whenever they needed to go somewhere.
How did the apache resistance differ from that the of the Navajo?
They stole their candy
What did the Navajo Indians travel from place to place in?
The Navajo people HARDLY ever traveled by boats/water-ways. It was mostly from wailking and the horses that they raided from the spanish.
Who were the apache Indians enemies?
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
How did Apache travel?
By foot until they acquired horses.by walking. later on they rode horses and became experts
Did the apache use horses?
yes
What kind of transportation do the Navajo use?
They used horses
How and why did calvary become less important?
Tanks replaced horses.
How did the Navajo transport?
thay walking their to places and rode horses
When did the Apache ride horses?
Whenever they needed to go somewhere.
How did the apache resistance differ from that the of the Navajo?
They stole their candy
What did the Navajo do before horses?
The the Navajo grew corn and squash and hunted on foot before the horse came to the American Southwest sometime after 1540.
Who were allies with the Navajo?
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.
What was the Navajo Indians main form of transpirtation?
They mostly walked but sometimes road horses
What did the Navajo Indians travel from place to place in?
The Navajo people HARDLY ever traveled by boats/water-ways. It was mostly from wailking and the horses that they raided from the spanish.
Who were the apache Indians enemies?
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
What are animals that are important to the hopi tribe?
bufflo,turtles,jack rabbits, deer,birds,fish,wild turkeys,fish,small animals sheep,massa,coyotes,horses,and elk
