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Pueblo Indians

These Native Americans lived in the American Southwest and are well known for the cliff dwellings.

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How did the Chumash Indians look like?

they eat the thing that ew eat like fruit and

How did the Pueblo Indians make their homes?

the cheyenne traveled by horseback because they followed their food source the buffalo/ the bison. The cheyenne Indians were/ are very nomadic.

Why were pueblos founded?

Well, the english, spanish, and french really didnt come to their villages like they did with the other tribes like iroquios, souix, ect. So they didnt take over and take their land..... so it probably just eroded away when the populating started to decrease or something............ ._.

Did the pueblos hunt?

They actually did both.They would hunt rabbit, turkeys, deer, and bears.They would farm corn, beans, and squash.

Did pueblo Indians use irrigation systems?

The Anasazi didn't use irrigation they normally relied on the natural blessings of Mother Nature. They helped the water by building check dams, canals, ditches and streams to collect the water

How were the pueblo like their ancestors the hohokam and anasazi?

The Pueblo Indians are not thought to be related to the Hohokam just the Anasazi, Sinagua and Mogollon. The modern Pueblo dry land farm like the Anasazi especially in the western Pueblos. They grow the same crops but added ones that were brought by the Spanish like peaches and melons. In the eastern Pueblos they irrigated their farms which is similar to the Hohokam but not the same and not not thought to be related. They have the same housing patterns, the same pottery styles, the same weaving of cotton. The kachina cult is thought to have started among the Anasazi at the end of their time and continues among the Pueblo.

What languages are spoken by Pueblo Indians?

The Navajo speak their own language, which called Navajo in English, Dine' bizaad in Navajo. Most also speak English. About 3% of the population of 300,000 speak only Navajo. About 1/3 don't speak any Navajo. The rest are bilingual, some very fluently , some not as good in one or the other language.

Navajo is in the Southern Athabascan language family, part of Athabasacan and the theorized larger Na-Dene' family. It may be related to a Siberian language caled Yenisei.

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Navajo.

Navajo and English.

About 60% of the 300,000 tribal members speak Navajo. Navajo is called Dine' bizaad in the Navajo language. With the coming of cable TV, fewer young people are entering school speaking Navajo well. However, the tribal council meets in Navajo, there is Navajo spoken on the radio station, KTNN, and some Navajo in the Navajo Times. To compete in the Miss Navajo contest one must speak Navajo well.

What do pueblo people wear?

The pueblo people wore cotton, woven or weaved shirts, and buckskin. They also wore yucca (desert plant), kilts,known as skirts reaching the knees, and breeches/pants.

What was the pueblos made out of?

Pueblos were made of sun baked bricks made of clay. The gaps on the bricks were filled with mud and sticks to block the wind and keep out pests.

What were the pueblo Indian homes called?

Native Americans inhabited the ENTIRE united states (& parts of canada).... hence the term NATIVE American. The type of home they may have lived in would depend on the tribe. There were many different tribes & many different types of homes. To get a more specific answer, please pick a tribe.

What did the pueblo Indians trade?

the Pueblo Indians traded their pigments, feathers, gem stones, shells, cotton, corn, furs, hides, woven cloth, salt, pinon nuts, dried meat, dried berries, squash, wild plants, beans, wild gathered fiber, turkeys.

What are tools and weapons the Pueblo Indians used?

Weapons = Bows & Arrows, Spears & War Clubs

Farming = Wooden Hoes & Rakes

Weaving= Looms & Spindles

Art = Pump Drill (to make holes in turquoise & other rocks)

How did the location of the pueblo people effect the kinds of shelters they built?

They didn't have trees to build their homes so they used adobe instead because, they live in a desert.

How do native Americans help us?

they were nomads and farmed some gardens using Indian slaves captured in battles. all the Indians had an agreement to not hunt in the Kentucky area due to there was a 7 year cycle of game growth. when the lean years happened ,they needed an area where the game was not used to being hunted so they could depend on feeding their tribes. when Daniel Boone entered the Kentucky game preserve to bring in settlers he was arrested by captain jack, the Indian game warden. after a few years tho the settlers kept moving in and the Indians were starved out.

This is a tough question. As the Sioux made up about 1/4th of the tribes in North America. They used their lands different thru out the Sioux nations. The Sioux stretch from the plains all the way up and down the east coast.

Why did pueblo indian's revolt in 1680?

The Pueblo people are a Native American people in the Southwestern United States. Their traditional economy is based on agriculture and trade. When first encountered by the Spanish in the 16th century, they were living in villages that the Spanish called pueblos, meaning "villages". (Wikipedia) For the source and more detailed information concerning your request, click on the related links section (Wikipedia) indicated directly below this answer section.

Where did the pueblo Indians get materials to make their adobe homes?

They grew cotton. Cotton arrived in the area in about 700 AD from farther south. They also used milkweed, indian hemp (dogbane), mesquite, cliff rose, willow, yucca, agave, stool, and bear grass and both feathers and fur. The cloth they wove was in high demand as a trade item all over the southwest, north into the plains and south into what is now Mexico. In turn they traded for hides and buffalo robes and fur.

What do pueblo Indians eat?

Pueblom Indians are vegetarians, but they would eat meat when it was avalibale.They hunted small game such as rabbit, gopher,and squirrel.They also hunted large game such as deer, antolope,and mountain lions.The main crop the Pueblo raised was corn.Corn was 80% of their diet.

What problems did the Pueblo Indians face?

Access to a source of water, food, shelter, and the ability to procreate are the basic issues that any culture faces. The Pueblo people lived in the arid desert region, so water was only available at a premium. Cisterns were constructed to save water for later use.

The pueblo leader Pope led a revolt in response to Spanish efforts to do what?

In 1680, the Pueblo Indians revolted due to their denigration and prohibition of their traditional religion and people being forced to labor on the colonists' encomiendas.

What was the pueblos religion?

The Pueblos didn't have a specific religion, but they had prayer dances for rain, a sucessful crop, harvest, etc. They had a room called a kiva under their pueblo, usually one-two kivas per pueblo. They weaved and prayer danced in it. It was a round room that was entered through a trapdoor in the ceiling. They had kachinas, which were little dolls that represented the gods-there were rain kachinas, sun kachinas, etc. When the Europeans came to America in about the 1400s, they had a huge war with the Pueblo, capturing them , working them like slaves, and converting them to Christianity. Hope this helps! P.S. You might want to look for some books that are about the Pueblo-they probably will have a lot more information than I do!