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Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest
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Map showing the distribution of Indigenous peoples and their lands in the American Southwest, with labeled areas for groups such as the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Apache, Pima, Yuma, Mojave, and others, along with major rivers and reservation boundaries. Southwest architecture By the water Adobe buildings of Taos Pueblo in New Mexico with a rounded adobe baking oven in the foreground and two people sitting on a rooftop ladder. Mountains are visible in the background. Pueblo pottery Spinning and weaving Home life Gahan dance Adobe buildings of Acoma Pueblo sit atop a steep, rocky mesa under a sky with scattered clouds in New Mexico. Allan Houser: Herding Sheep
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Map showing the distribution of Indigenous peoples and their lands in the American Southwest, with labeled areas for groups such as the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Apache, Pima, Yuma, Mojave, and others, along with major rivers and reservation boundaries.
Distribution of the Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest

Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest

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Also known as: Southwest Indian
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Laura Thompson
Consultant in applied anthropology. Field researcher on Hopi, Pagogo, Zuni, Navaho, and Sioux reservations. Author of Culture in Crisis: A Study of the Hopi Indians and others.
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Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest, any of the Native American peoples inhabiting the southwestern United States; some scholars also include the peoples of northwestern Mexico in this culture area. More than 20 percent of Native Americans in the United States live in this region, principally in the present-day states of Arizona and New Mexico. The Southwest culture area is located between the Rocky Mountains and the Mexican Sierra Madre. The Continental Divide separates the...

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