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Show THE SEARCH FOR DINETAH 63 build homes. These dwellings were like those of the Fremont people in many ways. But no adobe mortar was used to make them, and they were built in the round pattern of the North, not the rectangular pattern of the Southwest. When the People were on the move, they built walls to protect their brush shelters. In their camps, they built more permanent, carefully made shelters in caves of overhanging rock or against large boulders. As they pushed farther southeast, the People may have met the last of the Basketmaker people. Or they may have simply taken over the Basketmakers' old dwellings. These people lived in many-sided mud-covered log houses. In either case, a cribbed-log dwelling similar to the female hogan had been built in the Southwest before the People arrived. Between A:D. 900 and a.d. 1000, the first kivas and the ceremonies that came with them bloomed in the Fremont and Anasazi areas. It is not known what the ceremonies involved. Probably they grew from rites to insure good crops and good hunting. They were concerned with changes in the climate and growing seasons. Cone-shaped "cloud-blower" pipes, "lightning stones," and quartz crystals show this concern. Rituals may have centered around a conical stone object called a tiponi. Some scholars think the tiponi may represent a perfect ear of corn, which would suggest the worship of a Corn Goddess. At this time, the Anasazi also made rock carvings that show the mountain sheep, which represented rain as well as the hunt. The humpbacked flute player, also linked with growth and rain, was common. And there were also horned, human-like figures in the Fremont rock carvings. The Pueblo kachina religion seems to have started in this period. Clan systems formed, and the kiva religion grew more complex. The Navajos may have shared in these early kachina rites. If so, changes would have come about in their religion as well. The tiponi and the worship of a Corn Goddess may be related to Changing Woman. Perhaps contact with the Anasazi during this period influenced the Navajo Emergence story. To the San Juan The People continued to push south on the Uncompahgre Plateau. They found the upper San Juan region already inhabited. Their contacts with the peoples already in the San Juan area may not have been completely friendly. Many burned houses and stockaded towns have been found there. These ruins tell of war- |