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What are the names of the 5 tribes of the pueblo people in the southwestern part of US?
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∙ 11y ago
This is a difficult question to answer because the word "Tribe" does not fit the pueblo people very well.
A tribe is a social organization of people consisting of a number of families, clans, or other groups who share a common ancestry and culture and among whom leadership is typically neither formalized nor permanent.
Currently, in New Mexico there are 19 pueblos that are independent political organizations. Which one could call a Tribe.
Some people divide or organize these 19 pueblos according to the language or language dialects. This method also causes problems as the 19 pueblos belong to 3 distinct language groups and are further divided into 5 separate languages and these five languages have many discrete dialects.
Because you mentioned 5 tribes I believe you may be looking for the five languages which are Keresan, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, and Zuni. But many Pueblo people will disagree that these are "tribes".
The nineteen current pueblos in New Mexico are the: Acoma, Cochiti, Jemez, Isleta, Laguna, Nambe, Ohkay Owingeh, Picuris, Pojoaque, Sandia, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, Zia, and Zuni.
This leaves out one very important pueblo group the Piro Indians. They had a language that is now extinct but was part of the Tiwa language. These Indians occupied the area around Socorro, and San Acacia, New Mexico. Most of them fled with the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and moved to Socorro del Sur near present El Paso.
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