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They speak English, Keresan languages, and in one pueblo Keresan Sign Language. The seven Keres pueblos are: Cochiti Pueblo or Kotyit ("Stone Kiva"); Cochiti Pueblo people: Kotyitiemeh ("People of the North Mountains, i.e. Cochiti people") San Felipe Pueblo or Katishtya (People down by the river ”The place where the White Shells are”)
Keres (/ ˈ k eɪ r eɪ s /), [2] also Keresan (/ ˈ k ɛ r ə s ən /), is a Native American language, spoken by the Keres Pueblo people in New Mexico. Depending on the analysis, Keres is considered a small language family or a language isolate with several dialects .
After the Pueblo Revolt in 1680 the people of San Marcos joined the Navajo and Apache in refugee communities in Potrero Viejo. The Keresan inhabitants fled to Acoma pueblo, and others to Hopi. Sandia: Tiwa Albuquerque: An active pueblo that is home of one of the 21 federally recognized Pueblos. Santa Ana: Keres
The Cochiti pueblo people took part in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, an uprising of the Native Americans against the Spaniards. [11] When Spanish Governor Antonio de Otermin reconquered New Mexico, the tribe retreated with the other Keresan tribes of San Felipe and Santo Domingo (now called Kewa) to the Potrero Viejo. [11]
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM offers information from the Pueblo people about their history, culture, and visitor etiquette. Gram, John R. (2015). Education at the Edge of Empire: Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
The population of the pueblo is composed of Native Americans who speak Keres, an eastern dialect of the Keresan languages.Like several other Pueblo peoples, they have a matrilineal kinship system, [7] in which children are considered born into the mother's family and clan, and inheritance and property pass through the maternal line.
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.
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.