1. Pueblo Native Americans Southwestern Cliff Dwellers
Morgan Francis Zoe Barnett-Ohori Stephanie Sievers

2. Location Plateau of Colorado including: Northeastern Arizona
Northwestern New Mexico

3. Pueblo Native Americans
Much of southern architecture and artwork remains
Pueblos maintained a peaceful relationship with settlers
“Rain Dance”
Honor the gods and pray for rain
Created underground water systems
Irrigated corn  trade

4. “Women would produce and men would grow crops”
Children: keep crows away and gather firewood
Men: hunting and offered prayers to god
Women: Brought life (fertility through ritual dances)

5. Cause of Population Growth
Ancient Pueblos
Climate
Regular rainfall
Agricultural innovations (food storage etc.)
Increased fertility vs. decreasing mortality
Migration

6. Cochiti Governed by council led by heads of religious society
Politically autonomous
Cacique
War Chief/Lieutenant War Chief
Governor/Lieutenant Govenor Major Fiscale/ Lieutenant Fiscale
Minor Officials

7. Social/Village System Before
Buildings set up (religious, economic, political)
Close with community
Adobes
Clusters of properties surrounding community centers
Adobe Housing

8. Social/Village System After
Needed more permanent housing
Moved further, presumably had friends or relatives elsewhere
Roads

9. Resources/Economy Before
Hunter gatherers, hunted, agriculture
Wove baskets
Corn was big in diet, water supply extremely good
Upset “delicate balance of human needs and available environmental resources”
Shelters safe from intrusion

10. Resources/Economy After
Failure to rotate crops  less fertile land
Drought
Family other places, inability to farm
Famine destroyed lifestyle
Needed more permanent housing for growing population
Cannibalism theory

11. Pueblo Indians vs. United States (Differences)
United States Society
Pueblo Society
Democratic Republic government
Shared responsibility
Citizen responsibilities shared between men and women
Multiple religions
No need for hunting or gathering
Theocratic style of government
Women in charge of home and family
Men in charge of politics, agriculture, war
One religion
Nomadic hunter gatherers*

12. Pueblo Indians vs. United States (Similarities)
Pueblo Society
United States Society
Diverse
Expected chores of children*
Not one language is spoken
Housing style (modern day apartments)

13. Sources http://www1.american.edu/ted/ice/anasazi.htm