How to build a Hogan

[Navajo]

As a service to help you through the up coming winter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan


http://waltonfeed.com/peoples/navajo/hogan.html



Cause a stick build house is takes a lot of heat to keep warm...

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c375/Navajozorro/Navajo_winter_hogan.jpg


Inside of a well built hogan

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c375/Navajozorro/hogan-3.jpg

This is the kind I grew up around, very warm , plenty of room..

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c375/Navajozorro/hogan.jpg

[Lilly]

Don't build it near the Uraniuim tailings. I had the privilage of living at the bottom of a tailing mount.

[Freeholder]

I thought hogans were usually more 'buried' than that? Your pictures only show earth covering the roof -- is that more the norm than the partially earth-bermed ones?

Kathleen

[Navajo]

The ones I posted are 'Female' Hogans, the buried ones are 'male' hogans. The males are warmer, smaller and can be a mess if it rains alot.


http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c375/Navajozorro/hogan-1.jpg

[Lilly]

Yah-tah-hey Dine

Where are you from--which Chapter House?

Do you still live on the reservation?

[Navajo]

aoo' yá'át'ééh,

I am from LeChee Chapter.

No, I moved away about 10 years ago and haven't looked back.... sort of.

I have had chance to move back but not planning on doing it.

I do visit family almost every year on one trip or another. ( This weekend we will be driving thru and will say high to family.)


You?

[momof23goats]

I don't think I can build one in michigan, to much snow rain, and humidity. i think they need time to cure in the sun. but would be really nice if I could, I would try one.

[Navajo]

You could , Parts of Navajo land is mountians and gets lots of snow, other parts get rain, most pictures are of the desert areas.

You use a clay to seal it. "Modern ones use chinkin , just like a regular log home. Along with shingle roofs and door.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c375/Navajozorro/101807-014.jpg

Do a Googgle image search using "Hogan Navajo" a bunch of pics show up.

[Lilly]

Navajo-I have to run to work, I am LATE.....
Will write more later.......

[Freeholder]

The ones I posted are 'Female' Hogans, the buried ones are 'male' hogans. The males are warmer, smaller and can be a mess if it rains alot.


http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c375/Navajozorro/hogan-1.jpg

Thank for that explanation. I can see the buried ones being good for winter use, and the un-buried ones being better for summer use. I've always wanted to build one of those!

Kathleen

[Lilly]

aoo' yá'át'ééh,

I am from LeChee Chapter.

No, I moved away about 10 years ago and haven't looked back.... sort of.

I have had chance to move back but not planning on doing it.

I do visit family almost every year on one trip or another. ( This weekend we will be driving thru and will say high to family.)


You?
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Greetings:
You are from the other side of the Reservation, I lived in Tse Bonito, NM (out side of Window Rock, AZ) and then in Shiprock, NM. We would go to Tuba City often to visit friends. We heated our home with coal from Keyenta mines. Many wonderful times !!!!!

We move to the Reservation in 1972 from Michigan. My ex-had a job with NCC Systems in Ft. Defiance. We had a child born in Gallup and one in Farmington. I did get a divorce and married again in Aztec, NM. My husband ( since 1978 ) is Cherokee from Albuquerque (family from OK ). My father is Menomonee from WI. I am sad to say that I am not Navajo, although, I feel like a family member.

I was hoping you were from the NM/AZ area. For years I have been trying to locate my dearest friend Wilfred & Verna Begay. She welcomed my babies into this world in the traditional ways (cradle boards, earth’s salt, etc). I loved her and her family to pieces.

We moved from the Reservation in 1988 when I went off to Purdue University to obtain a degree in engineering.

(( I just ordered pinto beans & blue corn meal from Dove Creek, CO – I love my Navajo Tacos !! ))