The Southwest Desert

1
The Southwest Desert

• Chapter 2
• Lesson 3

2
Living in a Dry Land

• Pueblo people lived in the Southwest Desert
  region
• Mostly hot and arid (dry), village way of life
  farming
• Irrigation was used in order to farm corn, beans,
  squash, and cotton
• Irrigation is building a system of ditches to
  bring water to an area
• Pueblo farmers (Hopi Zuni)
• Apache hunters
• Navajo sheep raisers

3

• Pueblo villages resemble, or look like, an
  apartment building
• Defend against enemies
• Both men and women had shared power in the Pueblo
  way of life
• Hopi men governed the villages
• Women owned the property and passed it on to
  daughters
• They also shared the weaving
• Men cloth
• Women baskets

4
The Need for Rain

• Rain was the one resource that was always needed
  in this region
• Kachinas were believed to be able to bring it and
  other aid
• Kachinas are spirits
• Kachina dolls were used to teach Hopi children
  about their religion and beliefs
• Special dances were also used to bring aid to the
  Hopi people

5
The Hopi Today

• The Hopi still live on their land today
• Over 7, 000 live on reservations in NE Arizona
• The Hopi like to incorporate, or include, old
  ways of life with the new ways of life
• Tradition Modern life Hopi people

6

• Miss Sinn
• Miss Spinner
• Miss Diamond
• Ms. Fisher
• Miss Bloom
• Mrs. Davis
• Mr. Bok
• Mr. Florence