The Pueblo people are a group of Native Americans living in the southwestern United States, consisting of various tribes and speaking different languages. They still live in their historic homeland and are known for their farming, crafts, and traditional homes made of adobe.
The Pueblos are a large group of Native Americans living in the southwestern United States. There is no single Pueblo tribe, but rather a large number of tribes or Pueblos who are collectively considered the Pueblo people. The group is so named because the Native Americans of the Southwest lived in small settlements that the Spanish called villages or pueblos when Spanish settlers first encountered them.
There are currently 21 pueblos, 19 in New Mexico, one in Arizona and one in Texas. The Hopi of Arizona are perhaps the best known Pueblo tribe. The Hopi language is unrelated to the other Pueblo languages and is a Uto-Aztecan language related to Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. The Zuni is another Pueblo tribe with a unique language, Zuni, which is not only unrelated to other Pueblo languages but is not related to any other known language.
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, in El Paso, Texas, is one of many Tiwa-speaking Pueblos. With the exception of the Hopi and Zuni, the Pueblos speak a Keresan or Tanoic language. There are seven languages or dialects in Keresan, each spoken by and named after a different Pueblo tribe. Speakers of one of the Keresan languages can usually understand other Keresan languages. Tanoan includes Towa, Tewa and three Tiwa languages: Taos, Pecuris and Southern Tiwa.
Unlike many other Native Americans, the Pueblos still live in their historic homeland, some even in traditional homes built centuries ago. Acoma Pueblo, also called Sky City, is believed to have been built in the 12th century. Pueblos traditionally live in single-family dwellings made of adobe, a type of mud brick.
The Pueblos are traditionally farmers, with corn, beans, tobacco, and cotton as major crops. Furthermore, they traditionally supplemented their diet with hunting and gathering. The Pueblo culture is also known for its fine crafts, including Hopi pottery, jewelry, and Kachina dolls. Kachina dolls were originally used as religious teaching tools for children and are rich in symbolism.
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