Introduction
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The people that we group together as Puebloan do not today, and never have, constituted a single tribal entity. Instead, they come from a diversity of backgrounds and speak a variety of mutually unintelligible languages. Nonetheless they all share broadly similar subsistence, settlement, and social organizational patterns. The Pueblo people can trace their heritage back in a more or less unbroken chain to about the time of Christ. As did their ancestors, many modern Pueblo people live in compact apartment-style buildings and emphasize farming activities. In this module, you will learn about the background of the Puebloan people, how the environment and European contact have impacted their lifestyles, the regional variations exhibited between the different Puebloan groups, and some of the current issues facing the modern-day Pueblo Indians
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Required Readings
- Griffin-Pierce Chapter 2
Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to describe the regional variations that characterize the different Pueblo groups in terms of environmental setting, language, social organization, and political organization
- Students will be able to identify how environmental differences and differences in the nature of the contact with Europeans have resulted in different subsistence and social organizations among the Western, Eastern, and Keresan Bridge pueblos
- Students will be able to identify major issues facing the Puebloan people today
- Students will be able to define major terms and concepts relevant to understanding Puebloan cultures
Recommended Readings
http://www.sacredland.org/index.html@p=468.html - this provides information on the Taos Blue Lake issue.
Major Concepts and Terms
- Pueblo
- Kiva
- Floodwater farming
- Dry farming
- Medicine societies
- Moieties
- Clan
- Lineage
- Matrilineal
- Bilateral
- Compartmentalization
- Blue Lake
- Kachina cult
- Sodality
- Winters Doctrine
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