Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest

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Introduction & Top Questions
Traditional culture patterns
- Language
- Subsistence, settlement patterns, and social organization
  - The Yuman, Akimel O’odham, and Tohono O’odham
  - Pueblo peoples
  - The Navajo and Apache
- Socialization and education
- Belief and aesthetic systems
Cultural continuity and change
- Colonization and resistance
- Accommodation and cultural preservation
- The 20th and 21st centuries

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Distribution of the Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest

Southwest architecture

Pueblo architecture

Spinning and weaving

A clifftop pueblo

Allan Houser: Herding Sheep

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Apache Navajo Pueblo Indians Hopi Yuman A:Shiwi Tohono O’odham Mojave Pima Mimbres Eastern Woodlands Indians Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains Indigenous peoples of the American Southeast Northwest Coast Indian Northeast Indian Plateau Indian American Subarctic peoples Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin Indigenous peoples of California Inuit

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