USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What they did have was dirt, rock, and straw and, with these materials, they made their adobe houses in communities called pueblos. Adobe is mud and straw mixed together and dried to make a strong brick-like material. Pueblo peoples stacked these bricks to make the walls of the house.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is a pueblo? Pueblo is the Spanish word for “village” or “town.” In the Southwest, a pueblo is a settlement that has houses made of stone, adobe, and wood. The houses have flat roofs and can be one or more stories tall. Pueblo people have lived in this style of building for more than 1, 000 years.

Detailed explanation-3: -Where does the name “Pueblo Indian” come from? “Pueblo” is a Spanish term meaning “village” or “town.” This word is used both to describe a style of building (adobe-and-stone pueblo) and to refer to specific groups of American Indians who live in pueblos and come from an agricultural tradition.

Detailed explanation-4: -Early Spanish explorers were impressed by the villages that the Native peoples had built and gave them the name Pueblo, which is Spanish for “village” or “town.” Today the term Pueblo is used for both the people and their villages.

Detailed explanation-5: -Historians believe the Pueblo tribe descended from three cultures, “including the Mogollon, Hohokam, and Ancient Puebloans (Anasazi).” Representative of the Southwest American Indian culture, the Pueblo tribe settled in the Mesa Verde region at the Four Corners of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona.