Did pueblo Indians raise sheep

Answer 1

The Navajos of the early Spanish Period were quite distinct from the sheep herding, blanket-weaving Navajo peoples that Americans came to know in the nineteenth century. They raided and traded with the Spanish and Pueblo Indians, but their economy probably centered around hunting, farming, and the gathering of wild plants, although most sources refer only to farming. Corn is the only crop mentioned in Spanish documents, but beans and squash may also have been cultivated as they were by the Pueblo Indians.

in 1598, Juan de Onate, a colonizer, brought with him large flocks of Churros and Merinos sheep to the Rio Grande Valley. Today's Navajo Churro in the remote areas of the Southwest are descendants of these. The Churro thrived in the Southwest of the United States on the virgin ranges of what are now the states of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah pushing all other classes of livestock far into the background. Althoght accomplished at weaving, it was not until after the Spanish arrived that the pueblo indians begin to raise sheep.