The Navajo grew corn, beans, squash, melons, peaches, onions, chillies and other crops. They raised sheep, goats and sometimes cattle.They gathered pinon pine nuts, pigweed and beeweed greens, yucca fruit, cactus fruit, wild potato, sumac berries, chokecherry, currants and many other berries and herbs. They hunted deer, antelope, elk, rabbit, prairie dog, and other animals. They have been growing and raising these crops since the late 1500s. Before that they grew mainly corn, squash and beans and hunted and gathered wild foods.
Today most people go to the supermarket but some people still grow crops and raise sheep and goats.
Corn and sheep
They were hunter gatherers, and excellent raiders.
Food in Navajo is dą́ą́' or ch'iyáánHowever in Navajo word stems combine together to be not recognizable to an English speaker. So, "Mexican food" is Naakaii bich'iyą'. "His favorite food" is; bi'ooyą'. To give him food is: ba'nistsóód
Traditionally women prepared most of the food.
Jo link'anoo da iidaa. Ahe'hee
black, old age, death...
Corn, squash, beans and sheep and goats
They were hunter gatherers, and excellent raiders.
the navajo made their food by getting sticks and rubbing them togeather and made a fire to cook their food
wood
they hunted
Food in Navajo is dą́ą́' or ch'iyáánHowever in Navajo word stems combine together to be not recognizable to an English speaker. So, "Mexican food" is Naakaii bich'iyą'. "His favorite food" is; bi'ooyą'. To give him food is: ba'nistsóód
they hunted and grew food such as corn
by cooking it
on a open fire
to get food and clothing.
on a open fire
Traditionally women prepared most of the food.