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Squawk! Squawk! A Bald Eagle soared high above the mesa tops
where the Anasazi houses lay. Under the great bird, the Anasazi people
continued going about their daily activities including pottery making, basket
weaving, farming, and many other daily contributions. The Anasazi people
were nature lovers, artists, farmers, hunters, and had many other spectacular
events during the early days in the desert.
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The girls had to be at least ten to use
clay so they don’t mess up or waste.
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The Anasazi carved holes in the sides of
the mesas to protect them from harsh
weather, fierce animals, and enemy tribes.
Before the anasazi people descovered
clay and pottery, they wove their own
baskets that could hold water.
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The Anasazis homes were eight to ten stories high. The Anasazi lived in mesa tops in the four corners region.
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The Anasazi Indians had many homes. In their early days they were
nomadic with many homes. As the years passed, they soon began to settle in one
spot. Before they lived on mesas, they began to make crude shelters and settle in
caves. Later they began to be farmers and make houses in which they would settle
in permanently. The homes they built were pit houses made out of tree branches
and dirt from the ground. Soon enough they learned how to built houses using
blocks of sand stone. That is when they began to build their homes (Pueblos) on
Mesa tops. The rooms, or in other words the homes, they lived in measured about
ten feet by twenty feet. They built their homes high up in the cliffs to protect
themselves from other Indian tribes and white soldiers.
Kelsie # 6
The Anasazi people wore different clothing in the summer than in the
winter because of the weather. Younger children often wore no clothes during
the day, especially in the summer. In the winter, both young and old wore
blankets and robes made from rabbit skins and turkey feathers. No matter what
every body had the same amount of clothing in the village. During the summer,
men and women wore skirts woven from cotton or yucca fibers.
Anasazi
women
often wore
deerskin
dresses.
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When temperatures
were low young children
and elders mostly wore
blanket to keep warm for
clothes.
Kelsie #6
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The Anasazi tribe consumed many different types of food. The Anasazi
planted most if not all of their food. The tribe mostly planted corn, tobacco,
beans, peppers, onions, and other vegetables to eat and trade. But, the
Anasazi did eat some meat. The Anasazi kept wild turkeys that they would
slaughter for meat and bones. They would also hunt some, especially when
in the winter when crops wouldn’t grow.
The Anasazi included corn in many of their meals. This
includes corn bread, corn soup, corn patties and more.
Sadly, the Anasazi do not use their pumpkins for carving.
They instead used it in stews, soup, and other things.
Natalie #23
The Anasazi Indians had few enemies and some trading partners
When the Spanish came the Anasazi would not give up any land in the
1300’s. The Spanish soldiers killed many of the Anasazi Indians. The Anasazi
traded with some other cultures from the North and Southeast region. Four
thousand years after the Anasazi disappeared Spanish settlers would settle
in to one of their cities and call it Pueblo Bonito which meant beautiful land.
Sometimes the Anasazi tribes would trade with tribes near the ocean.
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The Hostile Indian tribe were enemies to
the Anasazi and they loved war.
Sometimes, the Anasazi would trade
with other tribes near the ocean.
Kelsie # 6
The woman in the
tribe were in
charge of the
animal hides. One
step the woman
had to do was
scrape off all the
extra meat and
blood with a object
similar to this.
This knife head
could be used
for scraping, a
weapon, and
much more.
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The Anasazi men were in charge of making the weapons and tools. The
Indian boys watched very carefully as their fathers worked at the flint, chert, and
other rocks. When they grew up the boys would have to make them. The men
crafted the rock with another rock until they had the shape they were satisfied
with, like a arrow or spear head. Then, they sometimes put handles on their tools
so they can be more efficient. The woman also made tools out of animal bone and
other materials. Unlike the men, the woman made objects like hide scrapers, and
other tools. The Anasazi tribe were defiantly not aggressive people.
Natalie #23
The Anasazi have many traditions they gathered during their years in the
Colorado Western Slope. The Anasazi harvested many types of plants for food. These
plants include wheat, juicy corn, delicious squash (including festive pumpkins) spicy
peppers, beans of all colors, and many other activities. The Anasazi also believed that
spirits lived in animals, plants, and trees. They also said that everything, living or not,
had a sacred soul. The Anasazi girls made beautiful weaved baskets and soon after
very fine pottery with mystifying designs. Unfortunately, many of these traditions were
lost in the dust when the people moved. It is still a mystery of why they left their
homes. Either they starved or they were forced out. The result was that the ancient
tribe moved to New Mexico and Arizona and away from their mesa tops in the
southwest deserts in the United States of America.
Before the
Anasazi
discovered
pottery, they
weaved baskets
with great skill .
The Anasazi
always decorated
their pottery the
same colors, black
and white.
Natalie #23
The Anasazi Indians had many events to entertain themselves. The girls
had numbers of activities to entertain themselves with. The girls sewed or knitted
beautiful blankets, fine clothes, or tough rugs. The Anasazi girls also made pottery
with beautiful designs or wove baskets with fascinating patterns. The boys could
participate in many events as well. They were usually the ones who ventured with
the fathers to trade items. The boys also made small tools like arrow or spearheads.
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The girls have to
watch there mothers
carefully as they sew,
for they will want to
sew the best clothes
and blankets for their
family.
The fathers let the
boys carry some of
the thing they are
going to trade while
going to the arranged
meeting place.
Natalie #23
While the Anasazi lived between 0 and 1300 A.D , they left behind a plethora
of interesting information about themselves. Did you know that the name Anasazi
means Ancient Ones? Another name for the Anasazi is the basket makers. Around
the year 1000 A.D. during Europe's middle ages, the Anasazi built thirteen towns
occupied by 3,000 people near Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. They were forced to
leave their homes because of bad relationships with the other tribes in the area.
These cities were later taken over by the Ute and Navajo tribes.
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By the middle of the 12th century, the Anasazi had
vanished and no one knows why.
When the Anasazi first started, they
were basket makers.
Kelsie #6
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Without a doubt, the Anasazi were very spiritual, and interacted in nature
during the 1200’s and 1300’s and 1400’s well before the other tribes settled in the
desert. The Anasazi actions leave the reader with questions about their behavior.
How did they communicate with other tribes? Were they agreeing with them? And
if not, Why? What happened to them after they left? These questions remain
unanswered to this very day.
Once the Spanish people came into Anasazi territory, when the Anasazi were gone, they called it
Pueblo Bonito.
Bibliography
Freedman, Russell. Buffalo Hunt. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc., 1988. Print.
D'Apice, Mary. Native American People The Pueblo. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke
Publications Inc., 1990. Print
Petersen, David. The Anasazi. Chicago, IL: Childrens Press, 1991. Print.
The Ancient Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde
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