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Modern Pueblos

Teacher: Scarborough
Horizontales
To settle down and live in one place 29
Animals that have been tamed for human use are _____ 48
The Pueblo people who live in NM today have always shared a similar _________ 44
For most of the year, Pueblo people made their clothes out of this plant material. 54
The people of Zuni speak this language. It is not closely related to any other language. 44
People trace their relatives through their fathers and men control the property. 54
A way to make pottery without using a wheel. 54
____ and crop rotation were techniques used by Pueblo farmers to help their crops grow in NM's harsh environment. 52
A traditional Pueblo "church"; used for ceremonies and as a meeting place for men 33
A religion that recognizes many gods 50
Spirits of ancestors and messengers of the Pueblo gods 51
____ was the main force in Pueblo life and helped define the ways of living that were common to a Pueblo.51
Ancestral Pueblos , or _________, are the ancestors of today's Pueblo people 33
The Rio Grande Valley pueblos used ___ to build their homes. 48
Pueblos are skilled _____ and are credited for teaching the Navajo how to weave. 54
Verticales
It has been very difficult for the Pueblos to unite in the past because they do not __________ each other. Even those who speak the same basic language have different dialects. 45
Pueblo people built their homes facing south so they could take advantage of this type of energy in the winter. 48
Several generations living in the same house together. 53
____ and Mesa Verde were some of the southwest's major settlements when the Ancestral Pueblos occupied the territory. 46
Pueblos believed that Kachinas controlled the _______ and brought rain. 51
A way to track relations as well as the religious obligations of a family. 54
The lower levels of Pueblos have no outside ____ 47
Abo, Tajique, and a few other groups once spoke this language, but these Pueblos do not exist anymore. 45 map
Pueblo buildings are ________. Each level has a different function. 46
Pueblo people are grouped together because they built their __________ the same way. 44
Although their cultures are similar, Pueblo people have never shared a ___________ 44
The name Pueblo was given to some of the people of NM by the ____________ because the structures the Pueblo built reminded them of their own villages 44
The majority of the Pueblos in NM speak a form of this language group that includes Tiwa, Tewa, and Towa. 44
These birds were valuable to the Pueblos for their feathers because they could be used as a weaving material. 48
Zuni Pueblo people have been famous for their ______ dance for a long time. Tourists have been coming out since at least the early 1900s to see it. 42