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Contemporary Pueblo Indians continue to be organized on a clan basis for pueblo activities and curing ceremonies. [16] The clans of the eastern Pueblos are organized into the Summer people and the Winter people (Tanoans) or as the Turquoise people and the Squash people. The western Puebloans are organized into several matrilineal lineages and ...
Cliff dwellings – Constructed in the sides of the mesas and mountains of the Southwest, cliff dwellings comprised a large number of the defensive structures of the Pueblo people. Jacal is a traditional adobe house built by the ancestral Pueblo peoples. Slim close-set poles were tied together and filled out with mud, clay and grasses, or adobe ...
Ancestral Pueblo people in the North American Southwest crafted a unique architecture with planned community spaces. Population centers such as Chaco Canyon (outside Crownpoint, New Mexico ), Mesa Verde (near Cortez, Colorado ), and Bandelier National Monument (near Los Alamos, New Mexico ) have brought renown to the Ancestral Pueblo peoples.
Pueblo people speak languages from four different language families, and each Pueblo is further divided culturally by kinship systems and agricultural practices, although all cultivate varieties of corn (maize). Pueblo peoples have lived in the American Southwest for millennia and descend from the ancestral Puebloans. [3]
Bletzer, Michael. "‘A church in every town’: early colonial settlement dynamics on the southern Pueblo frontier." Duwe, Samuel. "The Prehispanic Tewa World: Space, Time, and Becoming in the Pueblo Southwest." Stack, Adam David. "A People Apart: Factionalism and Conversion in Pueblo Mission Villages, A.D. 1620–1680." (pg. 79)
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Yellow Jacket pueblo was a village of the Mesa Verde culture was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [17] Covering 100 acres, the pueblo contains at least 195 kivas (including a probable great kiva), 19 towers, a possible Chaco-era great house, and as many as 1,200 surface rooms. See the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.
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