Puebloans have been remarkably adept at preserving their culture and core religious beliefs, including developing syncretic Pueblo Christianity. Pueblo nations have maintained much of their traditional cultures, which center around agricultural practices, a tight-knit community revolving around family clans, and respect for tradition. New Mexico contains the largest number of federally recognized Pueblo communities, but some Pueblo communities can also be found in Arizona and Texas, mostly in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and along the Rio Grande and Colorado rivers and their tributaries. Pueblo is a Spanish term for "village." When Spanish colonization of the Americas began in the 16th-century with the founding of Nuevo México, they came across complex, multistory villages built of adobe, stone and other local materials. Anasazi is a Navajo word that means Ancient Ones or Ancient Enemy, hence Pueblo peoples' rejection of it (see exonym). The term Anasazi is sometimes used to refer to ancestral Pueblo people, but it is now largely avoided. Pueblo peoples have lived in the American Southwest for millennia and descend from the ancestral Puebloans. Pueblo people speak languages from four different language families, and each Pueblo is further divided culturally by kinship systems and agricultural practices, although all cultivate varieties of maize. Among the currently inhabited Pueblos, Taos, San Ildefonso, Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi are some of the best-known. The Puebloans, or Pueblo peoples, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices. PuebloansĮnglish ( NM, US), Spanish, Indigenous languages of New Mexico ( Jemez, Jicarilla, Keresan, Keresan Pueblo Sign Language, Picuris, Southern Tiwa, Taos, Tewa, Zuni) For the ancient Puebloans, see Ancestral Puebloans. For the minor league baseball team, see Pueblo Indians (baseball).
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