Transcript Leaders

The Navajo
by Isabelle
Children
*Grew up with many brothers, sisters and nearby cousins
*Older children guided younger children around while
others worked
*Five-and-six-year olds carried water from stream
Family
*When young man married it had to be outside clan
*Rule still observed today
*Built their homes near bride’s mother
Homes
*Home called Hogan
*Made of logs and rocks
*In a circle
*30 feet(9m)wide
Crafts
*Pueblo first taught Navajo woman how to weave
blankets
*The woman wove beautiful patterns
*Woven tightly into beautiful patterns
Clothing
*Men and woman made their own cloths
*When first came to desert wore deerskin
*Wore dresses called biil
*Men wore shorter blankets called or a
shawl
War
*Fierce warriors
*During Navajo War of 1863-66
*U.S. government forced Navajo from their homelands
Homelands
*Navajo lived in Canada
*Then they moved to New Mexico
*In A.D 1000, they started moving south
Food
*Breakfast by day break
*Often ate tortilla and mutton stew
*Roast mutton another favorite
Society
*They lived in groups
*Spread over wide area
*Hunters and gatherers
*Grow corn, melons and sqaush
Contact With Europeans
*In 1582, Spanish explorer Antoniode Espejo led his
troops
*Into Navajo homelands from Mexico
*First time Navajo saw Europeans
*He said to them, “After we get back to our country it
will brighten again and the Navajos will be happy as
the land black clouds will be plenty of rain corn will
grow in abundance and everything will look happy.”