history
What were the spanish explorers looking for?
The Spanish explorers were looking for gold and christian converts.
The name of the home of the Navajo.
What is the Navajo Reservation?
the number of sacred mountains.
There were 4 sacred mountains.
What roles did the men have?
The men were hunters, warriors, and community leaders.
Their most famous achievement.
What is codebreaking?
What was the war that sent the Americans in a conflict with the Navajo?
The Mexican-American war.
The weather and temperatures in the Navajo Reservation.
Common weather and temperature include monsoons, snow during the winter, 6-20 inches of rain in the summer, and sometimes, the temperatures drop to 30 degrees below zero.
The one thing every ceremony has.
The one thing every ceremony has is a Blessingway Song.
Which tribes did they interact with?
They interacted with the Pueblos and the Hopi tribe.
The tribe they were often confused with, one of their worst enemies.
Who were the Apaches?
what good thing did the Spanish accidentally give them?
The spanish accidentally gave them livestock and horses.
The number of Cherokee people in the tribe.
How much is 400,000 people?
what did the Navajo children do for fun?
The Navajo played with dolls, did footraces, archery, and rode horses for fun.
What roles did women have?
The women did childcare, prepared food, washed clothes, and were warriors.
Who did the spanish team with to wipe out the Navajo?
The spanish teamed up with the Comanches and Utes, but failed to beat them.
The first European to see them.
Francisco Coronado was the first European to see them.
The States their reservation is located in.
Where are New mexico, Arizona, and Utah?
What was sandpainting believed to do?
It was believed to heal, used as medicine.
What languages were their languages similar to?
Their languages were similar to that of the Apaches and Athabaskan family.
What is the second largest American tribe, and how much people are in it?
The Cherokee were the second largest tribe, and they had a population of 392,000.
When they got to the central U.S.
they got to the central U.S. during 200-1300 A.D.
The names of their sacred mountains.
What is Mt. Blanca/Sisnaajini, Mt Taylor/Tsoodzil, San Francisco Peaks/Dook'o'osliid, and Mt. Hesperus/Dibe'Nitsaa?
How many worlds did Dineh have to travel to, and what was the earth called?
Dineh had to travel through 3 different worlds before landing on the fourth, or 'glittering world'.
Which tribe taught the Navajos farming?
The pueblos taught the Navajos how to farm.
What was their name given to them by the spanish?
The Spanish originally called the Navajo the "Apaches de Navajo".