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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South (2004) Harkins, Anthony. Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon Oxford University Press, 2004; Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith, eds.South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
Southwestern archaeology is a branch of archaeology concerned with the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. This region was first occupied by hunter-gatherers, and thousands of years later by advanced civilizations, such as the Ancestral Puebloans, the Hohokam, and the Mogollon.
There is evidence the Hohokam had far-reaching trade routes with ancient Mesoamerican cultures to the south, and show cultural influences from these southerners. [ 7 ] Mogollon peoples / m oʊ ɡ ə ˈ j oʊ n / lived in the southwest from approximately 200 CE until sometime between 1450 and 1540 CE.
Many contemporary cultural traditions exist within the southwest, but there are four major ones. Yuman -speaking peoples, including the Paipai , Havasupai , Yavapai , Walapai , Mohave , Quechan , Maricopa , Tipai-Ipai , Cocopa , and Kiliwa people They inhabit the Colorado River valley, the uplands, and Baja California .
The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.
At the center of each region is a great mountain peak that is a very sacred place. Yellow mountain to the north, blue mountain to the west, red mountain to the south, white mountain to the east, the multi-colored mountain above, and the black mountain below.
Western historians believe that the Spanish before 1600 referred to the Navajo as Apaches or Quechos. [15]: 2–4 Fray Geronimo de Zarate-Salmeron, who was in Jemez in 1622, used Apachu de Nabajo in the 1620s to refer to the people in the Chama Valley region, east of the San Juan River and northwest of present-day Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Pueblo nations have maintained much of their traditional cultures, which center around agricultural practices, a tight-knit community revolving around family clans, and respect for tradition. Puebloans have been remarkably adept at preserving their culture and core religious beliefs, including developing syncretic Pueblo Christianity. [5]