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Naiche (Chiricahua Apache, 1857–1921), painting of a girl’s puberty ceremony

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Naiche (Chiricahua Apache, 1857–1921), painting of a girl’s puberty ceremony

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This is a painting of a girls puberty ceremony. This festival looks fun and the painting is brightly colored. The girl having the ceremony also joined the army! It is really interesting because this ceremony is similar to the puberty ceremony people have in Mexico! And the Southwest came from Mexico.

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Thousands of years ago, people first came to the canyons of present-day New Mexico. The members of the Southwest, the Pueblo, the Mogollon, and the Hohokam built big cities carved into the cliffs and created advanced canals to water crops all the way out in the desert. Almost all of the Southwestern tribes, which later spread out into presentday Arizona, Texas, and Mexico, can trace their ancestry back to these ancient civilizations.
But there were two exceptions. The Apache tribe and the Navajo. The two powerful Southwest tribes moved into the region from the Arctic between  the year 1200 and 1500. They were hunters who followed their hunt all the way to the Southwest.
I think these two types of clans are very interesting because they are very different and both of them have specialties like building or fighting.

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People have been living in the stone houses of the Taos village since around 1000 A.D. It’s one of the oldest group of houses in the United States! The tribes of the Southwest do not have much rain so they make houses out of the rocks around them. The houses look very cube like and look very nice.

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Ancestral Pueblo pottery was built using thin coils of clay and smoothed out. The mug might have been used to carry chocolate in and out of Choco. Beginning about 500 A.D. Ancestral Puebloans painted black designs on vessels like this mug. I think it is designed well and is similar to the mugs I use.

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These jars are two in only 200 Ancestral Pueblo jars inside America. The jars have been found in Choco and they had bits of chocolate shards inside. These jars are nicely designed and look like the tall cups I use in my house, but are made of rock.

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I read about the Navajo “code talkers” and they seemed very cool. They were very important in the war and I wanted to learn more about them. I also like the other tribes like the Pueblo that I learned in school and the Apache who I heard was one of the strongest tribes in America.

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Part of why I chose this is because I learned about the Pueblo in school and they were very cool. The Pueblo were a very advanced society and I could learn more about it.

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The Navajo are one of my favorite tribes because I read about them in a book called “Code Talkers” at home. They used their native language to create a “code” that helped America win the war.

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The Apache is my second favorite tribe. They are very strong and fought the settlers so they could have their land back. Sadly the settlers used guns on them and now their is only 14,000 native speakers.

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All of these artifacts were used for important things. The ceremony is very important and is one of the most important moments in tribe members lives. And also during that time chocolate was “the food of the gods” so the mug and the jar were very important.