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Agriculture in the Southwest was based on the cultivation of maize, beans, squash and sunflower seeds. [9] The Tepary bean Phaseolus acutifolius has been a staple food of Native peoples in the Southwest for thousands of years on account of their tolerance of drought conditions. They require wet soil to germinate but then prefer dry conditions ...
Tribe or group Deity or spirit or man Notes Abenaki: Azeban: Trickster Peter willis Gluskab: Kind protector of humanity Malsumis: Cruel, evil god Pamola: Bird spirit; causes cold weather Tabaldak: The creator Blackfoot: Apistotookii: Creator [1] Napi: Trickster [1] Cahuilla: Tahquitz: Creator, death, or evil. Haida: Ta'xet: God of violent death ...
Queen Ann (ca. 1650–ca. 1725), chief of the Pamunkey tribe; Annie Antone, Tohono O'odham basket weaver; Annette Arkeketa, Otoe-Missouria poet, playwright; Anna Mae Pictou Aquash (1945–1976), Mi'qmaq Indians rights activist [6] Awashonks (fl. mid- to late 17th c.), chief of the Sakonett tribe [7] Annette Arkeketa, Otoe-Missouria/Muscogee ...
The modern day Sahrawis are a mixed ethnic group of Arabs, West Africans & diverse Berbers. The people inhabit the westernmost Sahara desert, in the area of modern Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara, and parts of Algeria. (Some tribes would also traditionally migrate into northern Mali and Niger, or even further along the Saharan caravan routes.)
From age ten until the time of marriage, neither boys nor girls were allowed to speak their own names out loud. Doing so can invoke bad luck to the children and their future. Similarly, people in the tribe do not say aloud the names of deceased people, in order to allow them to move on and to call their spirits back among the living. [citation ...
The Cahuilla learned of Spanish missions and their culture from Indians living close to missions in San Gabriel and San Diego. The Cahuilla provided security against the raids of the tribes from the desert and mountains on its herds for the vaqueros who worked for the owners of the Rancho San Bernardino.
Women's sandals are made from cows' skin while men's are made from old car tires. [citation needed] Women who have given birth wear a small backpack of skin attached to their traditional outfit. Himba people, especially women, are famous for covering themselves with otjize paste, a cosmetic mixture of butterfat and ochre pigment.
Frances Manuel and Deborah Neff, Desert Indian Woman. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. [ISBN missing] Wesley Bliss, "In the Wake of the Wheel: Introduction of the Wagon to the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona", in E.H. Spicer (ed.), Human Problems in Technological Change. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 1952; pp. 23 ...