It would fill volumes to relate one-half of the wonderful miracles and extraordinary apparitions said to have occurred during and since the conquest of the Indian Pueblos and their conversion to the Romish faith.
The Taos communal architecture is of the primitive type; after the Spanish conquest, the separate houses of the other puebloswere gradually adopted.
The "seven Pueblos of Moqui" (as they are called) are a similar tribe living a few leagues beyond.
The weapons most in use among the Pueblosare the bow and arrow, with a long-handled lance and occasionally a fusil.
Though all these Pueblos speak their native languages among themselves, a great many of them possess a smattering of Spanish, sufficient to carry on their intercourse with the Mexicans.
The dress of many of the Puebloshas become assimilated in some respects to that of the common Mexicans; but by far the greatest portion still retain most of their aboriginal costume.
Hence it is, that the females of these Pueblos are almost universally noted for their chastity and modest deportment.
I have been told that when the Pueblos return from their belligerent expeditions, instead of going directly to their homes, they always visit their council cell first.
Almost without exception the pueblos built on mesa summits are of sandstone or other rock, plastered with adobe mud brought up from the water-courses of the valley.
Nearly all the cliff and cave dwellings were naturally fortresses, and the open pueblos were so constructed as to render them castles of defence to their inhabitants on occasion.
Those pueblosthat are located in the valley, on the other hand, are generally built of adobe.
Between these two pueblos the mesa becomes so narrow that we walk on a mere strip of rock, deep precipices on either side.
Let us sing the war songs together, and go on the war-path and hunt down and kill the whites as the Pueblos hunt down and kill rabbits.
None of the present buildings of the Pueblos are equal in masonry to the ruins common throughout the region.
The eagle is sacred among Pueblos who have not abandoned their native religion, and the feathers are used in religious ceremonies.
Never since that day have the Pueblos shown a warlike spirit, having accepted their subjugation as inevitable.
On this truncated pyramid he distinguished, or thought he distinguished, one or more of thepueblos of the Moquis.
The only person capable of rousing her was Sergeant Meyer, who made expeditions to the other pueblos for news of Thurstane, and brought her news of his hopes and his failures.
There was the mysterious apartment; it was not really a temple, but a sort of public hall and general lounging place; such rooms exist in the Spanish-speaking pueblos of Zuni and Laguna, and are there called estufas.
Astride horses introduced by the conquistadores to the Americas, the Plains Indians became almost a separate race from the foot-moving tribes of the East and the stationary Pueblos of the Rockies.
Undoubtedly this talk had a strong effect upon the Indians, who in Civil War days had been punished harshly for similar depredations upon the pueblos of New Mexico and who may have remembered when Col.
The Pueblos of the Rio Grande use many baskets, which they obtain chiefly from the Jicarillas in exchange for corn.
But there are still many pueblos scattered along the Rio Grande, Jemez, and San Juan Rivers in New Mexico.
There would appear to have been little more formality than this in the establishing of the Indian pueblos which were formed in the beginning of the secularization period.
It is years since the last trace of the pueblos Las Flores and San Dieguito disappeared; and the San Pasqual valley is entirely taken up by white settlers, chiefly on pre-emption claims.
Aiming towards this completing of their colonization plan, the Spanish Government had very early founded the pueblos of Los Angeles and San Jose.
These proclamations were posted up in the pueblos for months before the sales.
They were among the Pueblos visited by the expedition under Coronado in 1540, who named the region inhabited by them the Province of Tusayan.
As nearly as can be ascertained at the present time, he visited and subdued the Pueblos in the neighborhood of Zuni, along the Rio Grande, and the Moqui of the province of Tusayan; but only occupied the country two years.
They have evidently been quick to take advantage of their contact with the semi-civilized Pueblos and Moquis, and from them have acquired many useful arts--chiefly in learning to spin and weave.
In 1858, Government confirmed to them the old Spanish grants of the land the Pueblos cultivate, averaging about twelve square leagues to each pueblo.
They have been reported from both Nagaba and Nueva Valencia, pueblos of that island.
They made sudden attacks on the pueblos and compelled their neighbors to pay tribute to them as to lords of the earth which they inhabited, and if these did not wish to pay them they killed right and left, collecting the tribute in heads.
Eight pueblos of Albay report altogether as many as 800 Negritos, known locally as "Agta.
The four divisions occupied respectively the pueblosof Tacubaya, San Angel, Mixcoac, and San Augustin de les Cuevas.
It was the season when fashion deserts the Alameda of Mexico, and betakes itself to month, cock-fighting, and intriguing, in the romantic pueblos that stud the valley.
The controlling ideas in the construction of the pueblos seems to have been communal residence and defence.
The pueblos were built in successive terraces, usually either in a semicircle or on three sides of a rectangle, the open side being protected by a wall.
The Moquis live in seven towns or pueblos which are built upon three rocky mesas that are many miles apart.
Every vestige of that period has been obliterated from the pueblos that nothing tangible should remain to remind them of their undeserved humiliation.
The Moqui Pueblos are well protected by natural barriers upon all sides except towards the south.
They asked to have schools opened in the pueblos on the plan of our public schools where the children could attend during the day and return home at night, and their home life be not broken up, but their prayer was denied.
None of the existing pueblos are as large as some that are in ruins which, judging by the quantity of debris, must have been huge affairs.
It should not be overlooked, however, that the Spanish government provided skilled laborers from Spain or Mexico, and paid their hire, for the purpose of aiding the settlers in the various pueblos that were established.
It had long been the intention of the government to found more pueblos or towns, as well as Missions in California, the former for the purpose of properly colonizing the country.
Hence it was that Tobar, and not Coronado, discovered the pueblos of the Hopi Indians.
These have been called the "Pueblo Indians" because they live in pueblos or towns.
The larger proportion of these specimens comes from the pueblos of Santa Clara and St. Ildefonso.
The Museum possesses a large series of pottery from the various pueblos of the Southwest; these are of the painted and decorated kind common to that civilization and country.
Certain specimens of pottery from thepueblos of Santa Clara and St. Ildefonso, deposited in the U.
The Once Pueblos are famous for their pottery, and in some of them almost every house has its little kiln or oven.
People were already gathering from other pueblos for market, and many of them slept through the night in the open market-place.
We passed thepueblos of San Martin Jilmeca, San Felipe, and San Miguel.
To our surprise, we found a fellow countryman, a civil engineer named Culin, from Philadelphia, who has done and is doing much work for the pueblos of this region.
Nor is it the exclusive property of the witches of Atla, of whom there are but two or three, but those of several pueblos make their rendezvous in this cave.
It was market-day, and indians from all the pueblos had gathered in the plaza to buy and sell.
The population of these Pueblos is every year on the increase; while, on the contrary, the numbers of the Indians dependent on the missions are continually decreasing.
Meanwhile the Pueblos will continue to multiply, and will become the origins of a new and improved population.
Some say, too, that these people got the idea of living in pueblos or villages from studying the habits of the prairie dogs and to this day the coyote is thought to be a good friend by the descendants of these ancient husbandmen.
In some pueblos most of the houses are on this plan and as many as 1,600 people have been known to live in one house.
There was no formal notification of Tuntai from the housetops of Hano on the following morning, the Soyaluna announcement from Walpi serving all three pueblos on the East Mesa.
Hano has never been absorbed by Walpi as the Patki pueblos were, and the altars herein described still preserve their true Tanoan characteristics.
All the pueblos have kimonwis or governors, and the office dates from early times; but these pueblo chiefs have no authority over pueblos other than their own.
Both of these works are of relatively minor importance, and I mention them here only for the sake of completeness and in order to warn against attaching undue importance to them so far as the Pueblos are concerned.
Still beyond, but some distance east of the Rio Grande, lay the Pueblos of Taos and Picuris, the inhabitants of which spoke a dialectic variation of the Tigua language of the south.
That Nuño de Guzman had gained some information concerning the Pueblos seems certain, but everything points to the Zuñi region as the one mentioned by his informant.
Nevertheless we find in it many data regarding the Pueblosnot elsewhere recorded, and study of the book is very necessary.
That the Rio Grande Pueblos receive an abundant share of attention from Benavides is natural.
This is the insurrection, successful for a time, of the Pueblos in 1680, against the Spanish domination.
The more is it surprising that his statements in regard to the population of the Pueblos are so manifestly exaggerated; yet, as I have elsewhere stated, this may be explained.
Mr. Lummis' volume of folk-tales of the Pueblos Indians of New Mexico contains many stories of the boy as hero and adventurer.
An interesting legend of the Indians of the Pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico is recorded by Muller (509.
The great importance of salt in the ceremonies of the Zuñi and related Indians of the Pueblos has been pointed out by Mr. Gushing.
In the Pueblos country are tremendous cañons of red sandstone, and in their sides are the habitations of human beings perched on every ledge in inaccessible positions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pueblos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
