- Fact 2 - The Southwest Indians were
tribes of hunter farmers and covered parts of the U.S. states of
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Colorado. The Native Indians of the Southwest were
divided into the Southwest Indians divide roughly into four
groups: the Yuma tribes, the Pima and Papago, the
Pueblo, the
Navajo and
Apache
- Fact 4 - Border States: California,
Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah
- Fact 5 - Origin of state's name:
Based on Pima Indian word "arizonac" for "little spring place."
- Fact 6 - Features of the area:
Colorado plateau, containing the Grand Canyon; Mexican Highlands
and Sonoran Desert
- Fact 7 - The Yuma Indians also
called Quechan were a native people of Arizona. Yuman was the
language of the Yuma and Mohave peoples and other Native
American languages of western Arizona
- Fact 8 -
The Pima were river people who spoke spoke variations of the
Aztec language. Their enemies were the Apaches
- Fact 9 -
The Papago were hunter farmers who lived on the the U.S.-Mexico
border. Their name means “desert people"
- Fact 10 -
The
Pueblo lands extended from S Utah and S Colorado into
Arizona, New Mexico, and adjacent territory in Mexico. The
Pueblo became hostile and then revolted against the Spanish.
Their resistance to the Spanish ended in a mass execution of
Indians by CoronadoThe term pueblo is also used for the
villages occupied by the Pueblo
- Fact 11 - The
Navajo were formerly
a nomadic tribe in brush shelters called hogans. The Navajo
settled among the Pueblo and also assimilated with the Shoshone
and the Yuma
- Fact 12 -
The Apache are famous for their fierce fighting qualities. Their
name comes from a Zuñi word meaning “enemy.” The Eastern Apache
were predominantly hunter gatherers, whilst their Western
counterparts relied more on farming but were driven from their
lands by the Comanche.
- Fact 13 - The
Apache: Today the
Apache live mainly on reservations covering over 3 million acres
in Arizona and New Mexico. They still retain many tribal customs
- Fact 14 - Homes and Houses of the
Indians of Arizona:
- Adobe houses also known as pueblos were used
by the Pueblo and Hobi tribes and were suitable for a warm dry
climate
- Brush shelters or wickiups were very small shelters made purely
for shelter when sleeping. A brush shelter or wickiup is
cone-shaped and made of a wooden frame covered with branches,
leaves, and grass (brush) . They were most often used as a temporary
house. The Apache tribe built brush shelters to enable them move
very quickly and without having to take hides and wooden poles
with them
- Earthen houses (also called hogans,
earth lodges and pit houses) were the homes of tribes such as the Navajo
- Earth lodges were semi-subterranean
dwellings which were dug from the earth, with a wooden domed
mound built over the top which was covered with earth or reeds
- Fact 15 - Arizona
1752 - The first permanent Spanish settlement was established in
Tubac, after many revolts from the Pima and Papago Native
Americans tribes
- Fact 16 - Arizona 1862 - The Apaches, led by Cochise,
attack soldiers at Apache Pass, beginning a ten year war with
settlers. In 1886 - September 4 The great Apache Geronimo
surrenders
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