Arizona
Death in the Piman and Yuman Cultures
Funerary practices and beliefs about death are more about the living than the dead. They provide some insights into the cultures of the people. The […]
Arizona
The Civil War and Indians in Arizona
In some parts of the country, such as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), the Civil War divided Indian nations with some joining the Union forces and […]
Invading Mexico in the 1880s
In the 1880s, the American wars against the Apache Indians ignored the border between the United States and Mexico, and the American military often ignored […]
Montezuma Castle National Monument
By 7000 BCE, American Indians were living in Arizona’s Verde Valley. While these earliest inhabitants of the area had a hunting and gathering subsistence, by […]
Pueblo Weaving
For more than a thousand years, American Indian agriculturalists have been living in villages in what is now Arizona and New Mexico. When the Spanish […]
Mount Taylor and the Pueblos
The Pueblo Indians, who have lived in the American Southwest for thousands of years, do not draw a distinction between the secular and the sacred: […]
The Hopi and the Spanish
The Spanish entrada (entrance) into the American Southwest began during the sixteenth century with explorers who were driven by greed. The Spanish hunger for gold […]
The War Against the Yavapai
In 1865, some drunken American squatters murdered Pai headman Anasa. In retaliation, Pai raiders attacked several wagon trains, ran off livestock, and shut down the […]
The Hopi Reservation
The Hopi had lived in their mesa-top villages in what is now northern Arizona for many centuries before the United States acquired the right to […]