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

Allan Houser: Herding Sheep

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Southwest architecture

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Also Known As	Southwest Indian

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Distribution of the Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest

Southwest architecture

Pueblo architecture

Spinning and weaving

Allan Houser: Herding Sheep

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