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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 environment affect what the Pueblo Indians used to build their homes?
their trees, animals, and many other things were used to make tepees or other forms of homes along with clay and other natural resources
Why did the pueblo Indians use spears?
The spear was one of the weapons the Pueblo Indians used to hunt. Unlike the settlers, Native Americans like the Pueblo relied on their skills using spears to hunt enough food to feed their village. Spears might also be used when the natives went to war.
Why did the pueblos Indians make their homes?
Most pueblo Indians did not live in "cave dwellings". Most "villages" (the Spanish name for village or town is Pueblo) were multi room, sometimes multi story structures constructed of stacked masonry or jacal. Most of these structures were built primarily on the mesa tops or the canyon floor, However, most sites that have been best preserved were those built in alcoves in the canyon walls. These are the most preserved for the same reason they were built in these alcoves, protection from the weather. Because these well preserved sites were the most attention grabbing, the Anasazi are sometimes referred to as "Cliff Dwellers" even though only about 10% of their sites were actually on the cliffs.
At Bandelier in New Mexico, and at other locations, the early pueblo people built structure that extended away from the vertical cliffs of soft volcanic tuff. They imbedded horizontal logs into the relatively soft cliff face for the roofs of the structures. They would also either carve rooms out of the volcanic tuff or use naturally eroded rooms behind the structures they built. See the History & Culture section of the Bandelier National Monument website for photos of this construction method.
The Pueblo Indians hunted deer, rabbits, antelope, bear, and berries. They also farmed. They raised corn, beans, and squash.
What time period did the Pueblo Indians live in?
The Pueblo Indians lived in pueblos. Pueblos are mud covered brick or stone buildings. There where ladders to climb to the next level (stairs weren't invented). If you ever go to Arizona, you may see some abandoned or wrecked pueblos
How did the Indians build pueblos?
They made adobe bricks from mud or clay mixed with straw, sun baked them so that they'd harden, and stacked them up. When They hit the top of a story, they'd make the roof by laying logs across the top, covering those with hay, straw, and brush, then covering that with adobe or clay. the roof of that story would become the floor of the next story up. These adobe homes, sometimes called "Pueblos", were usually one to seven stories high. few windows, with none on the bottom story. The main entryway was a hole on the roof. The Pueblo Indians sometimes covered the windows with adobe bricks if the weather was too cold. Sometimes they covered windows with "Selenite", the clear form of the rock called "Gypsum".
What was the economy of the Anasazi?
Then Pueblo people Anasazi were spread out over a large landscape and probably represented several language families and cultures just as their descendants, the Modern Pueblo people, do today. They all farmed corn, beans, squash, sunflowers and raised domestic turkeys.
Some people specialized in tools or pottery or weaving. Some were probably priests and leaders.
They all gathered wild fruits and vegetables and hunted game.
A number of places were clearly trading hubs for the whole region. Goods from as far away as the Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, central Mexico and the northern Plains came through the area. They traded, just as modern Pueblos did into historic times, salt, macaw feathers, shell, gem stones, obsidian and jasper, parrots, turkeys, corn, wild foods, bison, cotton, weaving, pottery, hides, furs, dried meat and art and ideas as well.
Some areas are though to have been large ceremonial centers so those areas the economy was based on the religion and who ever maintained it. Maybe a little like monastery towns in Europe at the same time period.
Where did the peublo Indians live?
The Pueblo Indians lived in caves and some shelters that were built using adobe mud and poles. They mainly grew corn and went hunting for food.
How do the desert southwest Indians do their celebrations and ceremonies?
the snake dance and the kachina dolls too
What did the Spanish do to encourage people to settle in the pueblo?
They didn't. The Pueblo people were already living in Pueblos when the Spanish arrived in the 1500s. Some of these villages have been continuously occupied for 800 to 1000 years or more. The only changes the Spanish brought were that some villages were abandoned to gather together more and protect against the Spanish especially after the successful Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Also there were population losses caused by Spanish diseases, attacked and starvation due to the Spanish stealing food.
21 Pueblos still exist and people still live there.
If the pueblo Indians traded what did they get for what they traded?
they traded for corn and stuff like that
What tools did the Papago Indians use?
Some of the tools that Papago Indians used are spears, clubs, bows, and arrows. They rarely went to war and were known for their impressive basket weaving skills.
What role did Alonso Garcia play in the pueblo revolt?
He was the luetentient governor of NM an he got all of the Spaniards in the Rio Abajo area to Soccorro to meet Gov. Otermin
Who built the cliff dwelling chaco canyon?
The Chaco canyon buildings were built by the ancestors of todays Pueblo people. They are often called the Ancestral Pueblo people. They are not cliff dwellings but on level ground and made of stone.
