Puebloan peoples

It was at one point speculated that they simply disappeared for want of a better explanation. Though today, many modern historians will disregard this as uninformed speculation and instead hypothesize that some unknown calamity befall the ancient people. Rampant wide-spread disease or more likely an unending period of drought, withered precious crops and caused a widespread famine…

Chaco Canyon was the place where the Anasazi culture thrived. The origin of the meaning Anasazi comes from an ancient Navajo phrase referring to the people who occupied the four corners region. The Anasazi are some of the ancestors of the current Native American indians of the same area. The Anasazi lived in the Chaco Canyon area in the second Pueblo Phase. This phase is separated into three phases: Early Bonito (850 to 1040 AD), Classic Bonito (1040 to 1100 AD), and Late Bonito (1100 to 1140…

This room was possibly used as an aviary, and housed many types of birds. Most notably, a large number of scarlet macaw skeletons were found. This bird is indigenous to Central and South America, and this evidence confirms trade, if not travel, with peoples located in those southerly areas. Possible use for an aviary strongly suggests religious and ritualistic purposes, which hints at the ritualistic space theory behind Pueblo Bonito’s history. In this room alone, 14 macaw skeletons were…

What Caused the Pueblo Revolt? History 1301 Sagun Khadka The “Pueblo revolt” which is also known as the “pope’s revolution” was a rebellion made by the all indigenous pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers. It was a mass revolution started on August 10, 1680 and ended on August 21, 1680 which result in killing almost 700 civilians. It actually happened when the Indian finally decided they had enough of the Spanish enslaving, murdering, and making them believe in Christianity and when Pepe…

only in the oral traditions passed down from their ancestors but also in petroglyphs carved into rock all across America. The Zuni claim that some of these petroglyphs depict visitations from star beings.” Apparently, star beings are what the ancient people called the…

Some being that they took place in the same time period and the people rebelling lose in the end. However, the main relationship that many people tend to overlook is how the tensions between the upper and lower class are so similar in both the Pueblo and Virginian civilizations. The lower class Pueblo Indians had tension with the higher class Spanish Colonist…

Zuni Indians are a very complex and interesting indigenous people. The Zuni tribe’s history began before 2500 B.C. along the Zuni River in the northwestern corner of New Mexico (Zuni Indians, 2016). The Zuni were the first of the Pueblo tribes met by the Spaniards in 1540 (Weiser, 2014). The arrival of these intruders disrupted their established culture, land, and trading, and infestation of disease and violence to a very peaceful people (Weiser, 2014). The Southwestern Indian culture extends…

Darty 1 Gina Darty Natalie Gray American History 1 September 5, 2015 Ancestral Puebloans Ancestral Puebloans had settlements located in the Four Corners region of the United States. The Four Comers is where the boarders of Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico meet. Like many Native American tribes, farming was a source used to feed the members of the tribes. The lands where the Ancestral Puebloans lived were known to experience periods of drought just as they are today in modern times.…

Under harsh environments and geological challenges, many people couldn't survive under this condition, but two groups of people, managed to adapt, and worked around their surrounding and make the most out of it. These people are the Puebloans cliff dwellers from Mesa Verde, and the Incas from Machu Picchu. The Puebloans from Mesa Verde adapted to their surrounding and lived within cliffs. They build large cliff dwellings called 'The Alcove' which the biggest of them contains 150 rooms and 23…

is where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado currently meet. The Navajos basically thrived in the South West. By the 15th century, there were two hundred and twenty thousand Navajo inhabitants on twenty-five thousand square miles of land. The people relied on horticulture, which consisted of hunting and gathering, and sheep herding played an important role in their lives. Navajo families lived in individual six to eight sided houses called "hogans", that were widely distributed throughout…