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Land of the Southwest
It was a hot summer
day when the deer were running in the desert because they were trying to
get to the grass near the Palo Verde. It grows to be 50 feet tall.
The deer went to the camp near the water. The wild cats, minks, and
prairie dogs were walking around. The fruits and nuts were getting
riper, and the water was getting warm. The snakes were going under
the sand, and the scorpions were slithering in it too!
The brown bear
were trying to get to the deer that were there. The lizards were
changing color and eating the flies. The fish were swimming in the
waters and the otter were diving in it at dawn. The badgers and the
eagles were fighting at the lake. The turkeys were running around,
and the antelope were just standing there. The coyotes were howling
at will and would not stop. The jack rabbits were jumping up and
down so the muskrats were following the jack rabbits to the lake to get
some water. The road runner was chasing everything. The Southwest
is very hot during the day and at night it is cold. This is what
the land of the Southwest is like. Would you like to visit it some
day?
The Basket Shaped Wikiup
Have you ever lived
in a wickiup? It is not sturdy and it is five to six feet tall.
The wickiups were made out of twigs, brush, and animal skins. They
dug an 8 foot circle, then they dug a hold around that for the poles.
The wickiup looks like a small cone-shaped hut. With cold weather,
they had a fire inside to keep warm. They had a hole at the top for
smoke to get out. They also had a ramada outside of their wickiup.
The ramada is a shady place for cooking and child care. It is made
out of logs, twigs and brush on the top. The ramada looks like an
upside down bridge. Are you more interested in living in one some
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The Amazing Apache Clothing
I did not know
that the Apache girls had to wear their hair down, not up, and it had to
be straight. Did you know the Apache women wore shirts in warm weather
and very long dresses in the cold? The edges of the dress were fringed.
Sometimes the dresses were decorated with porcupine quills. Later
they wore (man and woman) Mexican clothes made out of cotton. The
men wore breech cloths in cold weather and moccasins in cold too.
The moccasins were made out of animal skin. The headband was made
out of deer skin. Did you know the women made all of the clothing?
They usually made their clothing out of deer hide put in water, they stretched
it, and rubbed it to make it soft. Now, do you know more about the
Apache tribe's clothing? |
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Food
Two men were walking
from their camp when it was raining. So the men rode their horses
to kill the snake that they saw and the many fish they saw in the lake.
That took them 3 days, then the men knew they had to get back to camp.
When they got back, they hung their many fish and snakes on a rack.
Then it started to rain and lightening, so they washed off their arrows
and had a pipe. They went back to the many fish in the lake and killed
them plus deer, prairie dog and turkey.
It took them five
days to get back to their camp. The Apache also planted corn, hay,
chili peppers, nuts, squash, pumpkins, wheat, melons, and cotton too.
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Sources
Book" McKissack, Patricia. The Apache.
1984.
Online database: "Arizona". Britannica
Elementary Encyclopedia. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online
School Edition. 12/1/2006/
Web site: "Apache." http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/reports2/apache.htm.
1/24/2007.
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