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Pueblo lived in 16 towns along the Rio Grande River of New Mexico and practiced farming. They planted such crops as corn, beans and squash), Rio Grande

The Pueblos used the natural resources in this area to get what they needed to live. You will learn how they used the resources for homes, food, clothes, and tools and weapons. Click on the buttons to learn more about how they used these resources. 21

The land they lived consisted of high flatlands. The region had hot days, cold nights and little rainfall. Click on the buttons to learn more about how they used these resources. 12 The desert provided adobe for homes. It also provided wildlife for food and materials for making clothing and tools.

Since there was little rainfall the pueblos had to learn how to adapt their climate. Click on the buttons to learn more about how they used these resources. 12 The Pueblos had to irrigate their crops from nearby streams. They did this because there was very little rainfall.

You will learn about Pueblo homes and how they were built.

The Pueblos lived in homes called a Pueblo. Say the word, Pueblo. Point to each part of the word as you say it. Where did the Pueblos live? Pueblo

Their homes were built with mud, sticks and stones. They looked like big apartment buildings. The Pueblo is made entirely of adobe - - earth mixed with water and straw, then either poured into forms or made into sun-dried bricks 213 Materials For Building The bricks were dried in the sun

The Pueblo. 213 A Pueblo has a flat roof and is built next to or on top of it's neighbor. Families slept on rugs or animal skins. The word "pueblo" is not a native word. It means town in spanish. "Pueblo" is used for both the houses and the people who live in them.

Pueblo 213 Many Pueblos had hundreds of people living in them. Some Pueblos were 40 or 50 feet high Click on the blinking light to look inside a pueblo

Building A Pueblo Pueblos are built several ways. One way is to use rocks to build a wall and cover the rocks with a plaster of mud on the outside. Adobe is a type of brick made from straw and mud, that was used to cover the rocks Used with permission of Tara Pringle/Nativetech.org 123

The Pueblos would use a ladder to get inside their home. In time of danger they would pull up their ladder so no enemy could get inside. Inside a Pueblo home. They would use animals skins and handmade rugs to sleep on. Each room of the pueblo usually went to one Pueblo family.

Let’s Review Look at the pictures. Click on the one that shows a Pueblo home.

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Click on the name of this home. teepee igloo peublo

You will learn about what the Pueblos ate and where they got it.

Pueblo’s Food The Pueblos lived in the Southwest a desert area. Remembering that it hardly ever rains and is very dry, which plants do you think grew in the desert? Read the next few slides to see if you are right. mushrooms strawberriescorn beans cactus

Pueblo’s Food The most common plant the grew in the desert was cactus. The Pueblos however did not eat cactus. mushrooms strawberriescorn beans cactus

The Three Sisters The most important foods for the southwest people were corn, beans, pumpkins, and squash. Pueblo Indians were farmers. Most of their food came from crops. Squash Corn Beans 213

Farming The men cleared the fields and prepared the soil. The women did most of the farming. They used sharp sticks to poke holes in the dirt and put seeds in each hole. The children would walk the fields every day and pick insects off the plants by hand and would pull up weeds. 213 Click on the sun to see more on farming.

Corn was the most important crop for the Pueblo people. They ground it into corn meal and baked it in ovens like this one in a pueblo. Corn was dried and stored for times of drought when there was no rain The pueblo people made pottery to store the dried food Click on the sun to learn more about cooking

Cooking A horno is a kind of oven used by Pueblo Indians to cook bread and tortillas in. They used the roof of their pueblo like a porch.

They also grew gourds that could be dried out and used as containers. The Pueblos also grew cotton that they used to make cloth.

The wildlife was very important to the Pueblos. Men hunted any animal they could find living in the desert. The women and children would collect wild foods like berries when they were in season. 213 Wildlife

Let’s Review The Pueblo’s grew three very important crops to eat. Can you find them? Click on the picture to see if you are right. carrots tomatoessquash beans corn Find 3

Let’s Review carrots tomatoessquash beans corn Right! Find 3 The Pueblo’s grew three very important crops to eat. Can you find them? Click on the picture to see if you are right.

Let’s Review carrots tomatoessquash beans corn Right! Find 3 The Pueblo’s grew three very important crops to eat. Can you find them? Click on the picture to see if you are right.

Let’s Review carrots tomatoessquash beans corn Right! Find 3 The Pueblo’s grew three very important crops to eat. Can you find them? Click on the picture to see if you are right.

Let’s Review The Powhatans grew three very important crops to eat. Can you find them? Click on the picture to see if you are right. carrots tomatoessquash beans corn Try again! Find 3

Let’s Review carrots tomatoessquash beans corn Try again! Find 3 The Pueblo’s grew three very important crops to eat. Can you find them? Click on the picture to see if you are right.

Let’s Review The most important crop for the Pueblo Indians was?? Cotton Squash Corn

Let’s Review Look at the pictures. Click on the ones that show something the Pueblos might have eaten. fish Find 4

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You will learn about how the Pueblos traveled around this area.

Pueblo Indians didn't use horses or canoes for transportation. To get from place to place, the Pueblo Indians traveled on foot. So their transportation was walking.. How did the Pueblos get around? Rivers, Creek, Streams Flat Land

Walking They traded with other groups for things they could not grow or make. They would travel long distances to trade with other Native Americans for things they could not grow or make. Both men and women wore moccasins to protect their feet from the desert conditions.

Let’s Review Look at the pictures. Click on the one way that show the kind of transportation that the Pueblos used. Find 1

Let’s Review Way to go! Find 1 Look at the pictures. Click on the one way that show the kind of transportation that the Pueblos used.

Let’s Review Find 1 Look at the pictures. Click on the one way that show the kind of transportation that the Pueblos used.

Let’s Review. Find 1 Look at the pictures. Click on the one way that show the kind of transportation that the Pueblos used.

Let’s Review Find 1 Look at the pictures. Click on the one way that show the kind of transportation that the Pueblos used.

Let’s Review Find 1 Look at the pictures. Click on the one way that show the kind of transportation that the Pueblos used.

Pueblo Review

What kind of transportation did the Pueblo tribes use? Walking and a horse A horse and wagon Walking

What kind of transportation did the Pueblo tribes use? Walking

Click on the picture of the type of homes that the Pueblos had.

Click on the picture of the type of homes that the Pueblo had. Pueblo

Which of the pictures is most important crop of the Pueblo Indians?

Corn Which of the pictures is most important crop of the Pueblo Indians?

Squash, corn, and beans had a special name. What was it? The Three Stars The Major Crops The Three Sisters

Squash, corn, and beans had a special name. What was it? The Three Sisters

Which of these was a source of food for the Pueblo tribes? Wildlife Farm Animals Stores

Wildlife Which of these was a source of food for the Pueblo tribes?

What region do the Pueblos live in? South West Eastern Woodland Plains

South West What region do the Pueblos live in?

Which of these was a source of food for the Pueblo tribes? Dairy Farms Fruit Orchids Crops

Which of these was a source of food for the Powhatan tribes? Crops

Where did the Pueblos get their food? Gardens, Farms, Ponds Gardens, Stores, Farms Desert and Gardens

Where did the Pueblos get their food? Desert and Gardens