Identifier: cu31924028656738 (find matches)
Title: American Indians : first families of the Southwest
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Huckel, John Frederick, 1863-1936 Harvey, Fred
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : F. Harvey
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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906 theIndian office roughly estimated their number at 28,500. The Navaho home is built of tree trunks and limbs covered with grass andearth, and is conical in form. The smoke goes out through an opening in the apex.Thats the winter residence. In summer a lean-to serves between trips. Onecause for their poor houses and consequent nomadic trait is the belief that a habi-tation must be destroyed once a death occurs in it. Sometimes the loss of thehome is avoided by carrying the dying to the open and letting the end come out-side. When they decide to move, all that is necessary is to place any belongingsworth taking on a travois, mount their ponies and be on their way. They have been shepherds and goatherd?, since the Spaniards advent. Theirprincipal-art isblanket weaving, which they learned from Pueblo women capturedin war, but they are also expert silversmiths. The few basket weavers amongthem are said to be descendants of Ute and Paiute girls, also captives. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®
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CL 0 0)0I<z Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Indian Farmers Who Are GoodHunters, Too When the Spanish Explorers wandered up from Mexico in 1540 they found,on the two banks of the Taos river, the pueblo of Taos. The Taos Indians still livein their old town, making their living from agriculture and hunting. The namePueblo, as applied to the Indians, came, of course, from the Spanish word meaningvillage. Among the natives themselves distinctive tribal names are used. In early times they domesticated the wild turkey and herded large flocks asthey now herd goats and sheep. Eagles were trapped, a practice that still existsamong these tribes, and kept captive to supply feathers for their ceremonial dress.The antelope, bear, deer and mountain lion also fell before the arrow of the Pueblo,and regular expeditions were made to the buffalo herds in the plains. They stillhave rabbit drives, the men and boys encircling a large area and gradually closingin. The little animals are

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