Here is yet another great article on the Pueblo Indian History.
"The Pueblo Indians, whose name is Spanish for "stone masonry village dweller", are one of the oldest cultures in the U.S. Their ancestors, the Anasazi (Navajo for "ancient ones") have a history that has be traced back 7000 years, well into prehistory. The most important development in the evolution of the Anasazi culture was the changeover of the tribe from a nomadic to sedentary lifestyle, and their settling in Southeastern Colorado, New-Mexico, Utah and Arizona, also known as the Four Corners region. This is when they began constructing impressive dwellings, making pottery and other artifacts, and weaving baskets; this is also when the Anasazi first began developing their agricultural skills, raising turkeys, and growing maize and other crops, like the South American Maya and Aztec before them.
Since the Four Corners area was an arid biome, the Anasazi had to develop complex irrigation system to farm the land. The Anasazi did so with the minimal tools they had fashioned out of stone wood and bone, since they hadn't yet discovered metallurgy. Nonetheless, the Anasazi were master craftsmen, and had managed to fashion rather sophisticated tools of all sorts, ranging...
Pueblo Indians (Spanish pueblo, village), American Indians living in compact, apartmentlike villages of stone or adobe in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona. They belong to four distinct linguistic groups, but the cultures of the different villages are closely related.
The eastern villages, located along the upper Rio Grande near Santa Fe and Albuquerque, include Isleta, Jemez, Nambe, Picuris, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa Clara, and Taos, whose inhabitants speak Tanoan languages, and Cochiti, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, San Felipe, and Zia, where Keresan languages are spoken. Two slightly westward Keresan pueblos, Acoma and Laguna, along with the Zuni and Hopi pueblos, make up the western villages. Since about 1700 the Zuni have been concentrated in one large village in westernmost New Mexico. Their language shows no certain relation to any other language. The Hopi live on or near three mesas in northeastern Arizona. Their language is part of the Uto-Aztecan language family. The Hopi pueblos include Mishongnovi, Shongopovi, Shupapulovi, Sichomavi, and Oraibi and the Tewa-Hopi village of Hano, founded about 1700 by Tewa-speaking refugees. See also American Indian Languages; Hopi; Zuni Indians.
Archaeology and Prehistory Archaeologists relate the Pueblo to an older Southwest culture known by the...
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