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Living Pueblo, Dine, O'odham and Southwest nations

2000 CE-present with deep ancestral continuities · U.S.-Mexico Southwest

Pueblo peoples, the Dine, O'odham, Apache nations and other Southwest communities remain distinct sovereign peoples sustaining language, ceremony, art, agriculture and land relationships.

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How the setting appeared

Pueblos, reservations, cities, farms, grazing lands, deserts, rivers and sacred mountains form overlapping but distinct homelands.

Agent citation CIT-NMAI-SOUTHWESTCIT-NPS-ANCESTRAL-SONORAN-AMERICASCIT-UN-UNDRIP Setting and material context · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Families maintain nation-specific kinship and community responsibilities while participating in contemporary schools, professions and urban networks.

Agent citation CIT-NMAI-SOUTHWESTCIT-NPS-ANCESTRAL-SONORAN-AMERICASCIT-UN-UNDRIP Lifeways and community · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people worked

Farmers, herders, artists, educators, scientists, public servants and business owners combine local knowledge with modern economies.

Agent citation CIT-NMAI-SOUTHWESTCIT-NPS-ANCESTRAL-SONORAN-AMERICASCIT-UN-UNDRIP Work, tools and exchange · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Belief, ritual and worship

Sacred places and ceremonies remain under community authority; public interpretation must not expose restricted knowledge.

Agent citation CIT-NMAI-SOUTHWESTCIT-NPS-ANCESTRAL-SONORAN-AMERICASCIT-UN-UNDRIP Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

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Agent citation CIT-NMAI-SOUTHWESTCIT-NPS-ANCESTRAL-SONORAN-AMERICASCIT-UN-UNDRIP Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

Guides used for this record

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CIT-NMAI-SOUTHWEST

Southwest: Infinity of Nations

https://americanindian.si.edu/exhibitions/infinityofnations/southwest.html

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

CIT-NPS-ANCESTRAL-SONORAN-AMERICAS

The Ancestral Sonoran Desert People

https://www.nps.gov/cagr/learn/historyculture/the-ancestral-sonoran-desert-people.htm

U.S. National Park Service

CIT-UN-UNDRIP

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/ga_61-295/ga_61-295.html

United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

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