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Home Life
Spirits
Sand Paintings
Art
100
A one room house that the Navajo lived in.
What is a hogan?
100
What part of the U.S. did Navajo live?
What is the Southwest?
100
Taught them how to weave.
What is Spider Woman?
100
What are 3 things that sand paintings are made from?
What is crushed rock, plants and other dry materials?
100
The Navajo were known for what skill?
What is weaving?
200
Animals that are raised to be used or traded.
What is livestock?
200
What direction did the hogan doorway face?
What is east?
200
Gave them their first hogan.
What is Changing Woman?
200
Why did Navajo not save their sand paintings?
What is people might fight to get them?
200
Name 2 natural resources that Navajo used to dye the wool.
What is plants and berries?
300
When people change the way they live to fit their surroundings.
What is adaptation?
300
Navajo learned to grow the 3 sisters. What are they?
What is corn, beans and squash?
300
Taught Navajo how to make sand paintings.
What is Wind People?
300
How long did the Navajo keep a sand painting on the earth floor of the hogan?
What is up to 12 hours?
300
Navajo needed what livestock in order to weave?
What is sheep?
400
Navajo prayers that are sung.
What is chants?
400
In a hogan, women sat on the ___________ side and men sat on the _____________ side.
What is north and south?
400
Explains that water is a source of life.
What is Rainbow People?
400
What is often used to protect the three sides of sand paintings?
What is Rainbow People?
400
What is the second step to weaving a Navajo blanket?
What is shearing the sheep?
500
Religious works of art.
What is sand paintings?
500
Why was the hogan a good home in the desert?
What is it kept them warm in the winter and cool in the summer?
500
In Navajo myths, Changing Woman's hogan was made of __________ and ____________.
What is shells and turquoise?
500
On a sand painting, __________ shows east and ____________ shows west.
What is white and yellow?
500
What is the tool called that the Navajo used to weave their yarn?
What is a loom?