The hogan is a traditional Navajo home with six sides made of poles and adobe. It has little rainfall, hot days and cold nights. People who live in hogans stay in the same home and do not travel often, growing crops like corn, beans, pumpkins and squash in the surrounding desert, canyon and mesa landscape.
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2. The hogan has six
sides made of poles
and wood. Also the
house is made of
abobe. People who
live in the hogan do
not travel very often.
They make there
house then stay there.
3. ï‚ž Little rainfall
ï‚ž Hot days
ï‚ž Cold nights
ï‚ž Long hot summers
ï‚ž Cold short winters
6. ï‚ž You will find very little
rain, canyons, mountains, and mesas.
ï‚ž You would also find the Mesa Verde
National Park in Colorado.
7. ï‚ž The clothes that they wore were made out
of wool, and animal skin. They also wore.
head-wraps, animal skin, capes over a
woven shirt, and skin leggings .The way the
climate effected their clothes was that they
had to wear airy clothes because, it was so
hot and dry.