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**Food Source**
The arrival of the Spanish introduced sheep, goats, and horses to the Navajos. The Navajos were highly adaptive and incorporated domestic livestock and agriculture into their subsistence system.The Navajo raised goats and sheeps and eventually developed a barter economy,exchaging rugs and silverwork with the white traders. In the basic four Navajo food groups there is the Navajo corn and wheat category. That's bread and cereals tothe mainstream. It includes kneeldown bread, Navajo cake, Navajo pancakes, blue dumplings, blue bread, hominysteam corn, roast corn, wheat sprouts and sqash blossoms stuffed with blue corn mush.Wild foods are in the list of fruits and vegetables. There's corn silk, wild celery, wild onion, Navajo spinach (Beeweed and Pigweed), wolfberry, wax currant, sumac berry, juniper berry, yucca bananas, squash, melons and Navajo tea (Telesperma.)

**Dress:**
The Navajos make their clothing from deerskin. The men wore breechcloths and leggings. The women wore deerskin dresses. The Navajo men borrowed the style of Mexicans and wore blankets draped over one shoulder, their pants ended halfway between their knees adn ankles. They decorated the seams of their pants with silver buttons. The women also borrowed the Mexican style of dressing. The women wore woolen dresses made with two blankets stitched together at their shoulders. The women carried their babies in cradle boards, sometimes strapped to their backs. Later the women traded for calico and made big, full skirts.