Native Americans: Overview of Largest & Smallest Tribes, History, Navajo Tribe & Lifestyle, Exámenes de Inglés

¡Descarga Native Americans: Overview of Largest & Smallest Tribes, History, Navajo Tribe & Lifestyle y más Exámenes en PDF de Inglés solo en Docsity! AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES Aina Tasias INTRODUCTION Native Americans, also known as Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States, sometimes including Hawaii There are 562 Native American tribes. LARGEST TRIBES: Navajos of Arizona Navajos of New Mexico (approximately 160,000) SMALLEST TRIBES :Chumash of California Modocs of Oklahoma (fewer than 100) WHERE DO THEY LIVE? -Nowadays, they live in houses, flat sand apartments -Before they lived in HOGANS -HOGANS are used for Religious and Cultural events -These are Earth Houses which are dome shaped with the door facing East Shoshone Paiute Cherokee saw Creel Sojo LANGUAGE «What do Native Americans speak? -Everyone speaks English but nearly 150,000 speak the native Navajo language too. -It's very hard, it was used during World War 2 as a code maker and breaker. POLITICS -There is a chief, chosen by a tribunal -His work is very hard as he works like a negotiator, not like a King -He has to make everyone agree - The chief and the tribal council are elected by the people