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Pueblo Native Americans

Pueblo Native Americans. The Pueblos are a group of different tribes who are all much alike, so much alike we group them together. Pueblo Tribes. Tigua Jumano. Pueblos. Their name, Pueblo, is Spanish and means "town".

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Pueblo Native Americans

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  1. Pueblo Native Americans • The Pueblos are a group of different tribes who are all much alike, so much alike we group them together.

  2. Pueblo Tribes • Tigua • Jumano

  3. Pueblos • Their name, Pueblo, is Spanish and means "town". • In larger Pueblos there are several individual Pueblo buildings built around a plaza or square.

  4. Pueblos • Many Pueblos had hundreds of people living in them. Some Pueblos were 4 or 5 stories high.

  5. Pueblo Building • Pueblos are built several ways. One way is to use rocks to build a wall and cover the rocks with a plaster of mud on the outside. • Adobe is a type of brick made from straw and mud.

  6. Pueblo Buildings • A horno is a kind of oven used by Pueblo Indians to cook bread and tortillas in. • They used their roof like a porch.

  7. Pottery • They stored and cooked their food in well-made pottery. • The Tigua and other Pueblos are famous for their beautiful pottery.

  8. Farming • The dry land made it hard to farm. • The Jumano irrigated their crops from nearby streams • They traded with other groups for things they could not grow or make. • They would travel long distances to trade.

  9. Pueblo Jobs • The men cleared the fields and prepared the soil. • The women did most of the farming. They used sharp sticks to poke holes in the dirt and put seeds in each hole. • The children would walk the fields every day and pick insects off the plants by hand and would pull up weeds.

  10. Pueblo Food • Pueblo Indians, including the Tigua, are farmers. Most of their food comes from crops they plant and tend. Corn is the main crop they plant.

  11. Pueblo Food • They raised cotton that they used to make cloth. They also raised gourds that could be dried out and used as containers.

  12. Pueblo Food • The men hunted deer, rabbits, antelope, bear and any other wild game they could find for meat. • The women and children would collect wild foods like berries when they were in season.

  13. Leadership • Each Jumano Village had its own leader and its own government. • Government is a system for running a town or country.

  14. Tools • Pueblo hunters used bows and arrows. • In war, Pueblo men fired their bows or fought with spears and war clubs.

  15. Pueblo Locations of Jumano

  16. Dancing • There were important religious ceremonies that had to be done at each stage of the farming season. • There were dances and ceremonies while the crops were growing to bring rain and protect the crops. • The biggest dances and ceremonies came with the harvest of the crops. • With the Spanish, came diseases and epidemics that killed many of the Pueblo Indians. • Others were killed fighting off the Spanish invaders. • The Plains Jumano were pushed south and west out of their territory by the Apache.

  17. Pueblo Quiz • Name 2 facts on their buildings. • Name 1 facts on their jobs. • Name 1 fact on what they ate (food). • Name 1 fact on their tools. • Name 2 facts on why they danced.

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