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Taos Tribe

Taos Tribe. By MADISON NEWITT AND BRIANNA MORRE. Mens Work. Hunting animals such as deer Fishing for trout Making animal hides Leading secret religion groups Protecting the family Trading with other I ndian tribes Building multi-level pueblo’s. Woman’s work. Gathering crops and food

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Taos Tribe

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  1. Taos Tribe By MADISON NEWITT AND BRIANNA MORRE

  2. Mens Work • Hunting animals such as deer • Fishing for trout • Making animal hides • Leading secret religion groups • Protecting the family • Trading with other Indian tribes • Building multi-level pueblo’s

  3. Woman’s work • Gathering crops and food • Caring for children • Weaving baskets for carrying water, storing grain and cooking. • Lining baskets with pitch (waterproofing them) • Cooking with heated stones in water. • Making pottery, such as pots, bowls, canteens, ladles, jars, and mugs.

  4. Pueblo Food • Farming - beans, corn, squash • Gathering - wild nuts (pinon nuts), seeds (sunflower and mustard seeds), berries, Indian rice grass and amaranth • Hunting - Wild deer, turkey, rabbits, squirrels, game

  5. Crafts • Turquoise jewelry • Woven blankets • Woven baskets • Earthen clay pottery

  6. Pueblo Homes • Pit houses – sunken homes made from timber, mud and animal skins • Above ground pole and adobe homes • Homes made from sandstone with 50 rooms • Kivas – gathering places for each clan • Cliff Dwellings

  7. Pueblo Homes • Stone cities and villages on plateaus and in sandstone cliffs in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. • Found in the Four Corners Region of America. • You can see their homes at the Mesa Verde National Park.

  8. Taos Pueblo History • Native Pueblans lived in the Four Corners Region of America 1,400 years ago, before Europeans came to North America. They lived there for 700 years. • Sometime around the 1200s, they left their homes and moved away. No one knows the reason why they left.

  9. References • http://www.nps.gov/meve/historyculture/people.htm • http://indianvillage.com/aboutus.htm • http://www.ehow.com/info_8548301_foods-ancient-puebloans-ate.html#ixzz29hxFHD5V • http://beyondbuckskin.blogspot.com/2011/09/some-history-ancient-southwest-jewelry.html

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