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Central to Pueblo religion is the concept of the Kachina (also called Katsina), a spirit being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo people. These beings, once believed to visit Pueblo villages, are now honored through masked dances and rituals in which Pueblo people embody the Kachinas. [ 7 ]
The Spanish government demanded labor and tribute from the Pueblos and vigorously attempted to suppress native religion. (...) In that year [1692] Diego de Vargas re-entered Pueblo territory, though it was not until 1696 that he gained control over the entire Rio Grande Pueblo area. The Spaniards had learned from the Pueblo Revolt and were ...
Most modern Pueblo peoples (whether Keresans, Hopi, or Tanoans) assert the Ancestral Puebloans did not "vanish", as is commonly portrayed. They say that the people migrated to areas in the southwest with more favorable rainfall and dependable streams. They merged into the various Pueblo peoples whose descendants still live in Arizona and New ...
Ruins of a multistoried pueblo of 200–250 rooms, AD 1275–1325 (late Pueblo III Era and/or early Pueblo IV Era). Betatakin: Ancestral Pueblo Kayenta: Navajo Reservation: Grand house Ruins located at the Navajo National Monument. Box Canyon Ruins: Flagstaff Ruins located in the Wupatki National Monument. Canyon Creek Ruins: Salado
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, also Tigua Pueblo, is a Native American Pueblo and federally recognized tribe in the Ysleta section of El Paso, Texas. Its members are Southern Tiwa people who had been displaced from Spanish New Mexico from 1680 to 1681 during the Pueblo Revolt against the Spaniards.
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 Pecos Pueblo, 50 miles east of the Rio Grande pledged its participation in the revolt as did the Zuni and Hopi, 120 and 200 miles respectively west of the Rio Grande. At the time, the Spanish population was of about 2,400 colonists, including mixed-blood mestizos, and Indian servants and retainers, who were scattered thinly throughout the ...
The word pueblo is the Spanish word both for "town" or "village" and for "people". It comes from the Latin root word populus meaning "people". Spanish colonials applied the term to their own civic settlements, but to only those Native American settlements having fixed locations and permanent buildings.