Housing:

 

Navajo made their homes of wooden poles, tree bark, and mud. They called their homes hogans. The door of the hogans always pointed to the east because the sun rises in the east. The hogans usually had only one room and no windows.

One type of hogan was four-sided, and another type was round and dome-shaped. The Navajo usually had one hogan in the desert and one hogan in the mountains because they needed to make sure they could find food and water and also grazing land for their sheep.

Family Life:

Navajo didn't live in towns. They lived in family groups. Each family lived near their corn fields. The men hunted deer, and the women took care of the sheep and corn. Navajo family members lived near each other.

When a Navajo man married, he went to his wife's home to help his wife's family. Women provide the structure for Navajo society. The women own the property. The woman's property is passed down through her daughters.

 

 

Sheep and horses were important in the daily life of the Navajo people. Sheep provided materials for clothing and blankets and also provided meat for food. The Europeans introduced horses to land of the Navajo. With horses, the Navajo could travel longer distances and cover more area and so could trade more.