Table of Contents
- 1 Why did the Navajo most likely learn customs from the Hopi instead of the Nez Perce?
- 2 What practice did the Navajo learn from the pueblos?
- 3 Is the Hopi tribe part of the Navajo Nation?
- 4 How do the Navajo differ from the Hopi?
- 5 How did the Navajo interact with Europeans?
- 6 What caused tension between Hopi and Navajo?
Why did the Navajo most likely learn certain customs from the Hopi rather than the Nez Perce? The navajo lived closer to the Hopi. What American Indian groups lived in the Northwest Coast cultural area? Manak and the Chinook live in the Northwest Coast area.
Navajos came to the southwest with their own weaving traditions; however, they learned to weave cotton on upright looms from Pueblo peoples.
The Hopi Tribe is a sovereign nation located in northeastern Arizona. The reservation occupies part of Coconino and Navajo counties, encompasses more than 1.5 million acres, and is made up of 12 villages on three mesas.
Why is the Hopi reservation surrounded by the Navajo Reservation?
The Navajo reservation was established to keep the people confined to a specific area of land. In contrast, a reservation surrounding Hopi villages was created expressly to keep certain non-Indian peoples out of the area.
How was the Navajo tribe affected by westward expansion?
The Navajo peoples of present-day New Mexico and Arizona were affected very differently by westward expansion than the eastern tribes were. Perhaps because of this, the Navajo proved adept at borrowing cultural customs from the Native American tribes that already lived in the Southwest.
The Hopi and the Navajo did not have a conception of land being bounded and divided. The Hopi people had settled in permanent villages, while the nomadic Navajo people moved around the four corners. Both lived on the land that their ancestors did.
Influence by Europeans led the Navajo to adopt with farming, silver smithing, and livestock raising, but they were unable to escape a reservation, starvation, and diseases at the hands of Europeans and the U.S.
In the past few weeks, the 1974 law settling a land dispute between the Hopi and Navajo tribes has become the subject of intense controversy and debate. The relocation process has been the cause of much pain and suffering among many Navajo families and the cause of bitterness and conflict between both tribes.