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NM's Modern Tribes: Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache

Teacher: Scarborough
Horizontales
The Curing Ceremony sand paintings showed events in the lives of the ...61
Routinely changing the crops that grow in a specific area of soil to help improve the dirt 52
English meaning of the Spanish word "pueblos" 44
The most important part of a Navajo curing ceremony
Meaning of Dine, the name Navajo people use for themselves 57
Navajo and other nomadic tribes learned to make several of these from the Pueblo (notes)
One of the most skilled groups of Indian Warriors in US history 66
Language family of the Navajo and Apache 56
One of the few things that was not similar among different Pueblo cultures 44
One of the traditional forms of shelter for the Apache people 65
Ancestors of today's Pueblo people 31
Medicine man, religious leader of a Native community 61
Verticales
Gahan; the spirits who give the Apache shaman powers 63
A language family spoken by many of the Pueblos in NM; includes Tiwa, Tewa, and Towa 44
Most Native cultures traditionally practiced a religion that recognizes many gods, called...50
Traditional housing of the Navajo people 59
The lower levels of a pueblo house is used for this. 46
Stone ship sent by the gods to bring Navajo people to the Southwest 57
Navajo and Apache people were nomadic and moved frequently, but Pueblo people have always been _______ and built permanent homes 29
Social system in which women own the property and family relations are traced through women 53
A building material in which clay dirt and straw is used to make bricks to form walls 48
Techniques used by farmers in the southwest when there is limited water 52
The only group of Apaches to learn to farm 65
Part of the religion of some of the Pueblo cultures; messengers of the gods 51
Plant eaten by the Mescalero Apaches 65