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The Puebloans, or Pueblo peoples, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices. Among the currently inhabited Pueblos, Taos, San Ildefonso, Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi are some of the most commonly known.
Pueblo Indians, North American Indian peoples known for living in compact permanent settlements known as pueblos. Representative of the Southwest Indian culture area, most live in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico.
Pueblo Native American Culture. In North America, the Pueblo people carry on their traditions, religious beliefs, and unique Pueblo villages — structures modeled after cliff dwellings. Traditional Pueblo architecture included limestone or adobe bricks (bricks made from clay and water) to construct "multistoried, permanent, attached homes."
Learn about the Pueblo tribes, a group of indigenous peoples who have lived in the Southwest region of the United States for centuries. Discover their origins, languages, ceremonies, art, and how they adapt to change while preserving their identity.
Ancestral Pueblo people lived in the cliff dwellings for less than 100 years. By about A.D. 1300, Mesa Verde was deserted. Several theories offer reasons for their migration. We know that the last quarter of the A.D. 1200s saw drought and crop failures—but these people had survived earlier droughts. Maybe after hun-
The Puebloans of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico are descended from various peoples who had settled in the area, and shaped by the arrival of Spanish colonizers led by Juan de Oñate at the end of the 16th Century.
Cultural traits common to the Ancestral Puebloan peoples include heavy dependence on cultivated foods, the construction of pueblos (multi-room and at times, multi-story, masonry structures), distinctive pottery, and the construction and use of kivas (subterranean ceremonial chambers).
Learn about the history and religion of Ancestral Pueblo culture, also known as Anasazi or Hisatsinom, from c. ad 100 to 1600. Explore the periods, sites, and rites of this North American Indian civilization that influenced contemporary Pueblo peoples.
Learn about the Pueblo people, their origins, languages, and history from ancient times to the present. Explore their villages, religions, arts, and conflicts with the Spanish and the U.S.
Learn about the prehistoric Native American civilization that existed from ad 100 to 1600 in the Southwest. Explore their development, agriculture, architecture, and migration across six periods.