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Anasazi Culture-Mr B.-SS

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show Navajo(Dine)word meaning "Enemy ancestors" or "Ancient people who are not us"  
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Pueblo Culture   show
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Mesa verde   show
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show Culture that existed from about 1200 BC to 1300 AD in the 4 corners of the SW U.S. Best known for the ruins of their monumental cliff dwellings at places like Mesa Verde, which they abandoned at the end of the 13th century.  
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Chaco Canyon   show
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Hopi   show
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Zuni   show
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show aka "Dene" people were hunter- gatherers, until they adopted Pueblo life. Known for raising sheep, blanket eaving, and pottery. The Navajo Reservation in AZ is the largest in the USA.  
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Taos   show
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Acoma   show
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show A hard, sedimentary cyrstalline form of the mineral quartz; can be "flaked" with a harder stone to make arrowheads, spearpoints,etc.  
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Drought   show
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show The art of pouring colored sands, powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, and pigments from natural sources onto a suface to make a fixed, or unfixed and painting. Often tempoary, ritual paintings prepared for religious or healings or ceremonies.  
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Mano   show
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show (meh-TAH-tay) A flat or slighly concave stone base on which grain, nuts and seeds were ground using the smaller mano.  
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Taos Pueblo   show
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Colorado Plateau   show
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show Cultivating plants and seeds for food  
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Kiva(Great Kiva)   show
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show Pictures or picture-like symbols that represent an idea or tell a story. Pictographs can be found in the works of many ancient cultures on papyrus or wood, on cloth, on pottery and jewelry, painted on walls.  
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Pottery   show
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Yucca Plant   show
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show 1. Benevolent spiritual intermediates between certain southwestern peoples and the jobs. Kachinas bring good health, fertilty, rain, abundnace and other blessings. 2. (Modern days) Dolls or images of the supernatural beings.  
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show Pueblo peoples wove decorative baskets and sandals from the fibers of the Yucca Plant. They wove colorful, intricate blankets form sheep's wool. Dyed with natural plant and rock materials.  
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Cliff dwellers   show
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show The primary traditional round home of the Navajo people; made of wooden poles covered with layers of mud. Door faces east to greet the sun.  
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Wickiup   show
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Maize   show
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show Nomadic tribes who raided and plundered agricultural pueblos.  
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Granary   show
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show {"Kachina hump" probally of Hopi/Zuni origin} A well known mythological hump-backed flute player in most Southwestern Pueblo cultures. Among other things, this spiritual figure repersents fertiltiy and rain.  
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show MOH-kee)A hopi word meaning "the dead" which is often used to identify their ancestors. Prefered by the Hopi to the Dine Navajo word, "Anazazi"  
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show Rock carving or rock "art" made by "pecking" the surface with another rock. Ex. "Newspaper Rock" in Holbrook, Arizona  
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show Small pine tree with large edible nuts. Spanish for "pine nut"  
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Pueblo Bonito   show
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show 1. Modern Native American Indian peoples, including those living at Hopi, Zuni, Acoma,Laguna, Jemes and Zia pueblos and the 14 Rio Grande pueblos. 2. Anazazi ancestors of the modern Puebloans.  
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Sipapu (SEE-pah-puh)   show
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show In hand spinning, the spindle is a rounded wooden rod for twisting cotton fibers into thread. The whorl is a sort of flywheel that regulates the speed of the spinning wheel.  
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Teosinte(Tee-oh-SIN-tee)   show
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Tree-ring dating   show
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Colorado River   show
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Rio Grande River   show
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show Foot drums,tamborines,reed flute,turtle shells used to create connections to spirit world and reflect sounds of the natural landscape.  
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