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Who lived in villages and did not share a common language?
a) Jiricarilla Apaches
b) Pueblo Indians
c) Chiricahua Apache
d) Navajos

lived in southern New Mexico and ate agave plant.
a) Navajos
b) Chiricahua Apaches
c) Mescalero Apaches
d) Pueblo Indians

What is the largest Native group in the United States?
a) Navajos
b) Pueblo Indians
c) Jicarilla Apaches
d) Chiricahua Apaches

This tribe lived in southwestern New Mexico and were called Gila by the Spaniards.
a) pueblo
b) Apaches
c) navajo
d) great plains

This group of people lived as hunter-gatherers in northwestern New Mexico
a) Chiricahua Apaches
b) great plains
c) Jicarilla Apaches
d) Mescalero Apaches

What Spanish word meaning town was given to the Indian vilages of New Mexico?
a) hogan
b) kiva
c) pueblo
d) wickiup

What building material was made by mixing soil and water?
a) plaster
b) adobe
c) sandstone
d) sand paint

What name was given to the messengers of the Pueblo gods who were central to the Pueblo religion?
a) kachinas
b) moieties
c) mountain spirits
d) shamans

What was the main crop grown by the Pueblo Indians?
a) agave
b) beans
c) corn
d) squash

What kind of society traces its ancestral descent through the female line?
a) a clan
b) a matrilineal society
c) a moiety
d) a patrilineal society

What was the central part of Pueblo life?
a) religion
b) the family
c) curing ceremonies
d) hunting

Which group today the largest in the United States?
a) Chiricahua Apaches
b) Mescalero Apaches
c) Zuni Pueblo Indians
d) Navajos

What feature of Pueblo life has divided the Pueblo peoples for centuries
a) different religions
b) different languages
c) different ways of building
d) different social structures

What did non-Pueblo Indians of New Mexico have in common?
a) They were mainly sedentary farmers
b) They had identical religions
c) They were to some degree nomadic
d) Their homes were identical

Which non-Pueblo group borrowed many ideas from the Pueblo peoples?
a) Chiricahua Apaches
b) Jicarilla Apaches
c) Mescalero Apaches
d) Navajos

What does the Navajo and Apache term Dine mean?
a) The People
b) Our Enemies
c) Our Land
d) Mounain Spirits

How did most Apaches in New Mexico survive?
a) making crafts and pottery
b) dry farming
c) hunting and gathering
d) irrigation farming

In what kind of homes did the Navajos live?
a) permanent villages
b) hogans
c) tipis
d) wickiups

Navajo sand painting is most used with what ceremony?
a) curing ceremony
b) burial ceremony
c) planting ceremony
d) marriage ceremony

How are the Navajos and the Apaches related to one another?
a) through tribal groups
b) by where they settled
c) by language
d) through one common ancestor

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