Members of the genus are used by a number of the southwestern Native American tribes as a tea, as such it is sometimes called "Navajo Tea," "Hopi Tea," etc.

It was also widely used by many southwestern tribes, most notably the Navajo.

It's one of the few things that most of the southwestern tribes, or pueblos, have in common.

Another pilgrimage conducted annually for centuries by the Zuni and other southwestern tribes is made to Zuni Salt Lake.

For instance, the letter said, members of a southwestern Indian tribe told investigators that bureau employees taught them how to obtain wild horses illegally for slaughter.

The Navajos believe that almost all cultural practices originated within the tribe, but that weaving, farming, livestock raising, and some legends were learned from the Spanish and other southwestern Indian tribes.

After years of war fare, broken treaties, relocation and being the only southwestern tribe without a reservation, the two Jicarilla Llanero and Ollero bands united in 1873 and sent a delegation to Washington, D.C. to appeal for a reservation.

Similarly, when Wang Mang first became emperor, his ambassadors visited the southwestern tribes (in modern Guizhou, Yunnan, and southwestern Sichuan), whose chieftains Han had largely granted the titles of princes.

However, Wang continued to refuse to reinstitute the Han system of using awards to buy the submission of southwestern tribes.

Knowing that kiva do exist and their general use pretty much exhausts my knowledge of the southwestern tribes.