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Southwestern Indians. Sarah Jameson. Apache Indians. BASIC INFO Population today is about 56,060 people. Mainly located in Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. The tribe speaks 7 different languages. Their religion is Christianity or a traditional tribal religion . Nomadic
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Southwestern Indians Sarah Jameson
Apache Indians BASIC INFO • Population today is about 56,060 people. • Mainly located in Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. • The tribe speaks 7 different languages. • Their religion is Christianity or a traditional tribal religion. • Nomadic • Set up homes called “Wickips” wherever they traveled. • CULTURE • Lived with their extended family. Extended families then joined together to make a “local group”. • Local groups held ceremonies together for may different purposes. • One of the ceremonies that is still commonly held today, is similar to a Sweet Sixteen or a Bat Mitzvah. It signifies a girl becoming a young woman.
Navajo Indians BASIC INFO • Largest North American tribe. • Population today is about 300,050 people. • Mainly located in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. • Speaks Navajo or English. • Religion is Christianity or a traditional tribal religion. • Lived in homes called “hogans”. • CULTURE • Preformed many ceremonies. • Almost every act of there life, from building their house to planting crops, had a ceremony that was preformed for it.
Indians and Americans • There was a lot of conflict between the United States of America and the Native Americans. • Conflict started with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, because more and more Americans were moving into the Indian’s land that they have owned for thousands of years. • Other conflicts occurred because the Americans didn’t understand the Indians’ culture. • Because of this Americans thought that the Indians were savages. So, they believed it was okay to take there land.
Transportation Revolution and the Indians. • The Transportation Revolution made it much easier to get to the Western side of the country because routes were made through the rocky Mountains. • The Native American Tribes thought that the Americans were destroying their land with these routes and tunnels.
Expansion of America and the indians • As a result of the expansion of America, many Native American tribes migrated south into modern day Mexico.