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In New Mexico there are Native American tribes. Some people believe that the Native Americans in New Mexico came from Siberia. For centuries, these ancestral Indians lived a nomadic life, hunting and gathering their food throughout the Southwest. About 1,500 years ago, some of these ancestral groups (today referred to as the Anasazi Indians) began practicing agriculture and established permanent settlements, or pueblos. The agriculture includes corn, beans, squash, and chili. Today herding is a major economic enterprise for Native Americans and for New Mexico. New Mexico’s American Indian cultures influence many aspects of our modern lifestyles. The most obvious is the architectural style of the typical pueblo village, a style that is imitated statewide and often combined with other traditional and modern building styles. New Mexico’s Native Americans are famous around the world for their pottery, jewelry, basket and textile weaving, fine art and music. That concludes my report on the Native Americans in New Mexico.