The Navajo Tribe, like many other tribes have experienced culture changes throughout their entire history. Whether it be environmentally, style, or features, the culture has adapted throughout their time.
The Navajo People’s cultural change has been from a combination of commerce and trade. Such as with the Pueblo, Apache, Ute, Comanche and Spanish peoples and from their running feuds with the Hopi. This has all been set in their changes, while inspiring environment of the Southwest United States .
The Navajo people were nomadic in nature until they had other cultures influence their existence. Now, modern day Navajo people are an agriculturalist people. In the earlier times of the Navajo, they were more like the contemporary Apache, being gathers and hunters. With this type of lifestyle, they were considered a nomadic people. They moved from place to place without really setting up a permanent dwelling. When the Navajo migrated from Canada a cultural change occurred that made the Navajo who they are today.
In the older times, the Pueblo Indians taught them how to cultivate the land and grow beans, corn and squash. This led to the Navajo to a horticultural society. Then back into the modern times, farming has been supplemented by herding of sheep, goats, and cattle.
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