Friday, September 26, 2008

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

My opinion on the Pueblo Tribe!=]

My opinion on the Pueblo tribe is they are a cool tribe and learning about them are a good experience to see how it was back then to be an Indian and see how they lived their life. I think what i read and saw in some pictures and websites that i read was that it must have been a very fun tribe and also a tough tribe because when they would have special ceremonies they would dress up in funny costumes and do a traditional dance and sometimes they would actually train to make there body stronger like they do in the Delaware tribe. The Pueblo tribe is somewhat like us today. Their styles are still around today after almost 500 years.(Thats a long time =O! old tribe tehe=] ).

The Pueblo Tribe

Pueblo is another word for "town" or "village" in spanish. There are many different kind of Pueblos and each has its own name, including the Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna and many others. The Pueblos are natives of the Southwest deserts mostly in New Mexico. Unlike many Native American tribes, the Pueblo Indians were never forced to leave their homelands, and they are still living there today. The Pueblo language is mostly english but they had also 4 groups of languages that were traditionaly oral languages which means that there language isn't writtin down. The other Pueblo's encourage there children to learn there tradition language and write it down.



Many Pueblo children like to go hunting and fishing with their fathers, go to school, play with each other, and help around the house. In Pueblo the mothers would carry there young child in a cradleboard which is used today. Some of the roles for the women in the Puebloe tribe were in charge of the home and family, adn the men were responsible of war and politics. Both men and women's roles were to story-tell, play music, do artwork, and do traditional medicine.



The Pueblos lived in adobe houses which is a multi-story house. It was made out of clay, straw burned into hard bricks, and stones. The adobe could only hold one(1) family similiar to an apartment. If the Pueblos wanted to reach another apart above it, they would use a ladder to go upstairs. A Pueblo adobe house can contain dozens of units or objects
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The Pueblos cloths were made out of cotten. The men in the tribe didn't really wear clothes they just wore short kilts. The women wore knee-lenght cotten made dresses that were mostly called "mantas". In the mid 1900's the women started to wear blouses because the "mantas" were leaving the womens' left shoulder bare or showable. Today there style is still used. Both genders also wore deerskin on there feet for shoes. The men also wore cloth headbands for there head. For special ceremonies the dancers would wear crowns or painted mask.



The Pueblos food were mostly farmed because the Pueblian people were experts in farming. The crops they raised were of corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers, as well as cotton and tobacco. Pueblo men also hunted deer, antelope, and small game, while women gathered nuts, fruits, and herbs. The Pueblos Favorite recipies were hominy, popcorn, baked beans, soups, and many different other types of cornbread(yumm yumm sounds good(: ).



The Pueblos weapons were very fierce Pueblo hunters used bows and arrows. In war, Pueblo men fired their bows or fought with spears and war clubs. Pueblo tools included wooden hoes and rakes for farming, spindles and looms for weaving cotton (and later wool), and pump drills for boring holes in shell and turquoise beads.

The Pueblos transpertation!

Originally they just walked. There were no horses in North America until colonists brought them over from Europe, so the Pueblos used dogs pulling, a sled to help them carry heavy loads. Once Europeans brought horses to America, the Pueblo Indians could travel more quickly than before.


-----Kaelin(:

The Pueblo Language

The Pueblo are a diverse people and speak many different languages. There are three main languages spoken; each containing several subgroups. The main languages include: Uto-Aztecan, Keresan, and Tanoan. Though there are differences in the way the people speak their languages, it does not put a barrier between them. Dialectal differences between Pueblo speakers are common and more of a novelty than a problem.