USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Buildings like the ones described above were built in Texas by a group of American Indians called the Jumano (zhoo-muh-noh) people. Descendants of the earlier Anasazi culture, the Jumanos built perma-nent houses out of adobe bricks, which they made by drying clay mud in the sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Jumanos built and lived in large structures, called pueblos. Pueblos are constructed of adobe, a mix of wet clay and straw that is made into bricks and dried in the sun.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Pueblo Indians have lived in this fascinating complex of multistoried adobe homes and ceremonial structures since they were built in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Jumano culture was a farming and hunting culture that maintained a low profile and friendly way of living. They were traders and some the of very first horsemen in the area after the Spanish invasion. It was not unusual to have rituals for the passing of a young girl into womanhood.

Detailed explanation-5: -Where were they located? Both, Jumanos and Tiguas were in the Mountains and Basins region. Jumanos lived along the Rio Grande to the Big bend area. The Tiguas lived near what would be El Paso today.