Pueblo

The Pueblo group includes the Tanoan, Keres, Zuni and Hopi, along with the Hohokam and Hualapai of the Arizona deserts. The Ancestral Puebloans of the Four Corners region lived in pit houses, great pueblos and cliff dwellings and built kivas, round chambers used for ceremonies.

The Spanish gave the Pueblo peoples the name pueblo, meaning village, when they met multistorey towns of adobe and stone in New Mexico, where Spanish colonization began in 1598. Pueblo nations kept their agriculture, clans and religion, combining them with Christianity. In 1680 they rose in the Pueblo Revolt and drove the Spanish out of New Mexico, which Spain reconquered in 1692.