Tom Bridgeland wrote:

> On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 03:44  AM, Paleogal wrote:
>
>> Kath, All he has to do is as his grandmother or any elder from the
>> tribe.
>> Oliva
>>
>>
>
> Navaho were farmers, corn beans and squash mainly. Hunting would have
> been very secondary.

His grandmother couldn't help him much, except to avoid fry bread,
gelatin desserts,
soda pop, etc etc etc., the worst of the modern food.  Navajos keep
sheep and eat
a lot of lamb.
But in previous centuries, Navajos had a much greater contribution from
hunting than
they do today.  They are also thought to be fairly recent arrivals in
the southwest,
coming only a few hundred years before the Spanish, and learning farming
from
their neighbors the Hopis and Pueblos.  They are closely allied
linguistically
with Pacific Northwest Indians, and their exposure to neolithic foods is
probably
less than 1000 years.

    Lynnet