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In the 17th century, Pueblo frequently fled from their towns in the Rio Grande valley of New Mexico to El Cuartelejo to escape from Spanish rule and take refuge among the Apache. The first flight of the Pueblo to El Cuartelejo may have been in 1640 after Taos Indians killed their mission priest, Fray Pedro de Miranda. The Spanish sent out ...
The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the Anasazi and by the earlier term the Basketmaker-Pueblo culture, were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.
During the Pueblo III Period most people lived in communities with large multi-storied dwellings. Some moved into community centers at pueblos canyon heads, such as Sand Canyon and Goodman Point pueblos in the Montezuma Valley; others moved into cliff dwellings on canyon shelves such as Mesa Verde or Keet Seel in the Navajo National Monument.
Tesuque Pueblo – Tewa speakers. Known for the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Camel Rock Monument, and its ceramic Rain God figurines. Located near Santa Fe. Zia Pueblo – Keres speakers. Known for their sun symbol, which is New Mexico's state flag. Zuni Pueblo – Zuni speakers. Known for being the first Pueblo visited by the Spanish in 1540. [24]
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 ...
Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for beautiful town) is the largest and best-known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico.It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126.
Interior of Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins National Monument showing the vast size of the structure Ruins of the kiva at Puerco Pueblo, Petrified Forest National Park Chacoan round room features. A kiva (also estufa [1]) is a space used by Puebloans for rites and political meetings, many of them associated with the kachina belief system.
Great houses – Generally built on flat plains throughout the Southwest, the great house-style Pueblo dwelling sat independent of cliffs. Pit houses – Most of the populations of the Southwest lived in pit houses, carefully dug rectangular or circular depressions in the earth with wattle and daub adobe walls supported by log sized corner posts.