Life in a PuebloThe sprawling adobe structures known as pueblos provided safe, communal dwellings for entire villages of Southwest peoples. Life in a Pueblo uses remarkable photographs, beautiful artistic renderings, and clear text to explore the daily lives of the groups known collectively as the pueblo peoples. Children will be fascinated to learn about: - constructing a pueblo - daily interactions among a pueblo's inhabitants - the roles of men, women, and children - farming practices and the farming lifestyle - types of foods - different spiritual beliefs of pueblo peoples Teacher's guide available. |
Contents
The Pueblo peoples | 4 |
Families clans and moieties | 10 |
Farming | 16 |
Making crafts 222 | 22 |
Trading goods | 28 |
Common terms and phrases
ancestors apartment-style baskets beehive oven bones Boys breechcloth canals to direct CARLMOON ceiling ceremonies clans and moieties clothing cooking crops direct water ditches and canals dried dwellings eastern pueblos fabric farmer who relies farming flood farmer floor gourd Hopi and Zuni Hunters Hunting and gathering hunting or healing Irrigation jewelry Kachinas Keresan language kiva ladder language family leaders maize Mano and metate matrilineal meat mesas missionaries moccasins Moiety chiefs natural materials Navajo and Apache pithouse plant fibers plant foods pottery Pueblo groups Pueblo peoples lived Pueblo peoples spoke Pueblo peoples today Pueblo peoples wore pueblo Pueblos pueblo villages Pueblos were built region relied on floods Rio Grande pueblos river rodents sandals seeds Southwest Spanish explorers spindle stick squash stick and whorl stone or adobe surrounding the pueblos table of land Tanoan Taos Tewa thread Tobacco trade turkey feathers turquoise village members western wooden woven Yucca fibers yucca leaves