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1 TheSouthwest IndiansTheSouthwest Indians

2 I am going to tell you a little bit about the Southwest Indians and their lives. First I’m going to tell you about what they eat, their main foods were corn, beans, peas, melons, peaches, birds, rabbits, and finally turkeys. CORN Green Beans Food

3 Southwest Indians Transportation The transportation of the Southwest Indians was by dugout canoes, horses, and by foot. Transportation

4 The houses the Southwest Indians stayed in were variable from longhouses, to tepees, to igloos, or in my opinion the coolest houses that they had which are wigwams, they are houses for people who stay in the same place for months at a time. Most Algonquain lived together in settled villages during the farming season, but during the winter, each family group would move to their own hunting camps. Pueblos Wigams Houses

5 The weapons of the Southwest Indians were bows and arrows, spears, and war clubs. They made bows out of wood such as ash, they made the string out of buffalo or other animals intestines dried out, the fletching out of eagle and hawk feathers, they used metal if they could find it for the arrowheads, but they mainly used flint or rock. War Clubs Bows + Arrows Weapons

6 The customs and beliefs of the Southwest Indians is a thing called anism or shamism, anism means perceive the world as filled with living enities, spirit beings that animate the sun, moon, rain, thunder, animals, plants, tolographic features and many other natural phenomena. Customs Beliefs


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