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.



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.