Pueblo

The word is the Spanish word both for "town" or "village" and for "people". It comes from the Latin root word meaning "people". Spanish colonials applied the term to their own civic settlements, but to only those Native American settlements having fixed locations and permanent buildings. Less-permanent Native settlements (such as those found in California) were often referred to as rancherías, however, the oldest area of Los Angeles was known as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Rio de Porciúncula or El Pueblo de Los Angeles for short. == Pueblo tribes ==

Of the federally recognized Native American communities in the Southwest, those designated by the King of Spain as pueblo at the time Spain ceded territory to the United States, after the American Revolutionary War, are legally recognized as Pueblo by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Some of the pueblos also came under the jurisdiction of the United States, in its view, by its treaty with Mexico, which had briefly gained rule over territory in the Southwest ceded by Spain after Mexican independence. There are 21 federally recognized Pueblos that are home to Pueblo peoples. Their official federal names are as follows: • Hopi Tribe of Arizona (Uto-Aztecan) • Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico (Kiowa-Tanoan) • Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico (Keresan) • Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico (Keresan) • Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico (Kiowa-Tanoan) • Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico (Kiowa-Tanoan) • Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico (Keresan) • Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico (Kiowa-Tanoan) • Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico (Kiowa-Tanoan) • Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico (Kiowa-Tanoan) • Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico (Keresan) • Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico (Kiowa-Tanoan) • Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico (Kiowa-Tanoan) • Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico (Keresan) • Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico (Kiowa-Tanoan) • Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico (Kiowa-Tanoan) • Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico (Kiowa-Tanoan) • Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico (Keresan) • Santo Domingo Pueblo (also Kewa Pueblo), New Mexico (Keresan) • Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, Texas (Kiowa-Tanoan) • Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico (Zuni) One unrecognized tribe, the Piro/Manso/Tiwa Indian Tribe of the Pueblo of San Juan Guadalupe is currently petitioning the US Department of the Interior for federal recognition. == Civic institutions ==

, Albuquerque, New Mexico Each Pueblo is autonomous with its own governmental structure. Several organizations serve to unite the interests of difference Pueblos including the Albuquerque-based All Pueblo Council of Governors who collectively negotiates for land and water rights and advocates for Pueblo interests with the state and federal government. The interests of Eight Northern Pueblos are served by the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council based in Ohkay Owingeh (formerly San Juan Pueblo). The center has a museum that presents Pueblo history and artifacts, and an interactive Pueblo House museum. An archive holds a collection of photographs, books, and tape recordings of oral histories. It also has a café and a restaurant, ==Historical places==

Pueblo), katsina tihu (Paiyatemu), late 19th century. Brooklyn Museum Pre-Columbian towns and villages in the Southwest, such as Acoma, were located in defensible positions, for example, on high steep mesas. Anthropologists and official documents often refer to ancient residents of the area as pueblo cultures. For example, the National Park Service states, "The Late Puebloan cultures built the large, integrated villages found by the Spaniards when they began to move into the area." The people of some pueblos, such as Taos Pueblo, still inhabit centuries-old adobe pueblo buildings. Contemporary residents often maintain other homes outside the historic pueblos. In addition to contemporary pueblos, numerous ruins of archeological interest are located throughout the Southwest. Some are of relatively recent origin. Others are of prehistoric origin, such as the cliff dwellings and other habitations of the Ancestral Puebloans, who emerged as a people around the 12th century BCE and began to construct their pueblos about 750–900 CE. == Feast days ==

Many pueblos participate in syncretism between Indigenous Pueblo religion and Roman Catholicism. The pueblos welcome outsiders to participate in feast days, in which the Pueblo communities hold seasonal ceremonial dances, and certain households volunteer to feed visitors meals. Photography is forbidden. Visitors are advised to confirm events in advance with the Pueblos. Dances include the antelope, bow-and-arrow, Comanche, corn, basket, buffalo, deer, harvest, Matachines, and turtle dances. ;January • 1: Transer of Canes: dances at most pueblos • 6: King's Day Celebration: Nambé, Picuris, Sandia, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, Taos • 22–23: St: Ildephonsus feast: San Ildefonso • 25: Picuris, San Ildefonso ;February • 1st or 2nd weekend: Governor's Feast: Old Acoma, Ohkay Owingeh • 2nd weekend: Caldelaria Day: Picuris, San Felipe ;March • 19: St. Joseph feast: Laguna ;April • Easter weekend: most pueblos • Easter Sunday: Jemez, Nambé, Santo Domingo, San Ildefonso, Zia ; May • May 1: St. Philip Feast: San Felipe • May 3: Feast of the Cross: Taos • First Sunday: Santa Maria Feast: Acoma ; June • First Sunday of the month: Blessing of the fields: Tesuque • 13: San Antonio feast: Ohkay Owingeh, Picuris, Sandia, Santa Clara, Taos • 13: Ysleta del Sur • 24: St John the Baptist feast: Ohkay Owingeh, Taos • 29: San Pedro/St. Paul feast: Santa Ana, Santo Domingo ; July • 14: St. Bonaventure feast: Cochiti • 25: Santiago feast: Taos • 26: St. Anne feast: Laguna, Santa Ana, Taos • 28: Peoples' Day: Pojoaque, Santa Ana ;August • 2: San Persingula feast: Jemez • 4: Santo Domingo feast: Santo Domingo • 9: San Lorenzo feast: Picuris • 10: Pueblo Revolt anniversary and San Lorenzo feast: Acoma, Picuris • 12: Santa Clara feast: Santa Clara • 15: Assumption of Our Blessed Mother feast: Laguna, Zia • 28: San Augustine feast: Isleta ;September • 2: San Estevan feast: Acoma • 4: San Augustine feast: Isleta • 8: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin feast: Laguna, San Ildefonso • 14: Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo • 19: St. Joseph feast: Laguna • 25: St. Elizabeth feast: Laguna • 29: San Geronimo Eve feast: Taos • 30: San Geronimo feast: Taos ; October • 4: St. Francis of Assisi feast: Nambé • 17: St. Margaret Mary feast: Laguna • 24–27: Laguna ; November • 12: San Diego feast: Jemez, Tesuque • Thanksgiving Weekend: Acoma • Thanksgiving Day: Christmas light parade: Zuni ; December • 11: Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe feast: Pojoaque • 12: Our Lady of Guadalupe feast: Jemez, Pojoaque, Santa Clara, Tesuque • 24: Christmas Eve celebration: Acoma, Laguna Nambé, Ohkay Owingeh, Picuris, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Taos, Tesuque • 25: Christmas Day: Cochiti, Ohkay Owingeh, Picuris, Santo Domingo, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Zia • 25–27: Cochiti, Laguna • 26: Ohkay Owingeh • 26–28: Christmas dances at most pueblos • 28: Holy Innocents Day: Ohkay Owingeh, Picuris == See also ==