HISTORY & INFORMATION

The Southwest Native Americans come from the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Colorado, and the northern part of Mexico.  Most of the land is desert covered with cactus.  The main tribes that come from the Southwest area are the Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, & Zuni.  Some tribes spoke their own languages, had their own religious customs, and laws they followed.  Most of the Southwest Native Americans became farmers and lived in villages.

The Southwest Native Americans believe in that the 4^th world is sacred.  They believe the first people created in the cave below the surface of the earth climbed through two more caves with creatures until they reached the surface.  They climbed through the hole called sipapu which is the hole humans were born from.

 

 

created on April 15, 1998

edited on April 22, 1998
by Pam Eck, IUPUI