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Questions about Native Americans

What Native American tribes once lived or are living in what is now Utah, USA?

Dr. dig responds:
By about A.D. 700, the Anasazi culture had emerged in the arid southwestern part of North America. Their territory covered much of the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, where Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah meet. Anasazi is a Navajo word meaning "ancient ones". They were a farming community and by about A.D. 750 they began building elaborate, multi-storied, apartment-like structures with many rooms for different purposes. The Spaniards called the Anasazi communities "pueblos," or towns. The descendants of the Anasazi, including the Hopi and the Zuni, still occupy similar communities in the Four Corners area.


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