The Great Basin and the Southwest

from Garbarino, M. S., and R. F. Sasso. 1994. Native American Heritage. Third Edition. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

The Great Basin Tribes

• Paiute
• Ute
• Shoshone

Map of Great Basin

Characteristics

The Southwest Tribes at time of European Contact

1. River Farmers

• Yuma (Upper Yuma got most of food from hunting and gathering)
• Pima
• Papago (Mixed farming with hunting and gathering)

2. The Pueblo:

Fully agricultural, settled people. Pueblo home.

• Hopi (80% of food from farming)
  • Kachinas or this site
• Zuni (80% of food from farming)
• Cochiti

3. Southern Athabaskans.

Latecomers to the Southwest, arriving about 500 years ago. Originally hunters and gatherers and raiders of the Pueblo fields, but later Navajo and some Apache adopted farming from the Pueblo. Their names come from the Zuni phrase for "raiders of the fields."

• Navajo (Call themselves Dene, the people.)
  • Hogan home
• Apache

Characteristics