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The Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico (Western Keres: Kawaika [kʰɑwɑjkʰɑ]) is a federally recognized tribe of Native American Pueblo people in west-central New Mexico, near the city of Albuquerque, in the United States.
Following the 1680 Pueblo Revolt which led to the temporary Spanish retreat from the territory, the pueblos reverted to practicing their own traditions while incorporating some of the Spanish customs.
During the Pueblo V period (AD 1600–present) pueblo culture was influenced by Spanish colonialism. A decrease in populations at the pueblos was due in great part to the introduction of European diseases and other effects of colonialism that had an effect on Indigenous material culture, in particular during the earlier years of the era. Later ...
Puebloans have been remarkably adept at preserving their culture and core religious beliefs, including developing syncretic Pueblo Christianity. [5] Exact numbers of Pueblo peoples are unknown but, in the 21st century, some 75,000 Pueblo people live predominantly in New Mexico and Arizona, but also in Texas and elsewhere.
Puebloan societies incorporate elements of three major cultures that dominated the Southwestern United States before European contact: the Mogollon culture, whose adherents occupied an area near the Gila Wilderness; the Hohokam culture; and the Ancestral Pueblo culture, who occupied the Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde regions in the Four Corners area.
Ceremony is a novel by writer Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo descent), first published by Viking Press in March 1977. The title Ceremony is based on the oral traditions and ceremonial practices of the Navajo and Pueblo people.
Dwellings of the Pueblo peoples in New Mexico's Salinas Basin. The dwellings of the Pueblo peoples are located throughout the American Southwest and north central Mexico. The American states of New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona all have evidence of Pueblo peoples' dwellings; the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora do as ...
Laguna Pueblo (2 C, 10 P) M. Mesa Verde National Park (12 P) O. ... Pueblo art (3 C, 3 P) Pueblo culture (4 C, 13 P) Pueblo history (6 C, 22 P) Pueblo of Isleta (1 C ...