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The native Indians of the southwestern part of the United States were much more civilized when discovered than the wandering tribes in other parts of the country.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") They have built adobe houses for many centuries.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") These houses of mud, brick, and hewn timbers cannot be removed like the wigwams, teepees, or wickiups of the other tribes.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") The Spaniards named these Indians Pueblos, for pueblo is the Spanish word for village.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") There are twenty-seven Pueblo towns.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") The Pueblos are a peaceful people.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") They have had time to invent things that astonish the white men who have seen only the Indians of the wandering tribes.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") The pueblo of Zuñi is in New Mexico, about two hundred miles southeast of Santa Fé.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") This Indian town was sought for by Coronado and his Spanish soldiers.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") They had heard marvelous stories of the silver, gold, and jewels owned by the red people living north of Mexico; but the Pueblos were brave as well as wise, and the history of that Spanish expedition is sad reading.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The town of Zuñi is built upon a hill, about forty feet above the bank of the river Zuñi; it covers about fifteen acres.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") The town is like a great beehive, for the houses are merely rooms built one over the other, each family living in a few small rooms which are reached by means of ladders.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Some houses are only two stories high, while others are fully five stories.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The wealthier Indians live in the lower houses, except the official whose duty it is to give the orders of the governor from the housetop.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") He lives with his family in rooms near the roof.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") These Zuñi houses are built around two plazas, or squares, with several streets and covered ways to connect them with the other parts of the town.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") The mesa called Thunder Mountain, upon which similar homes were built by them in ancient times, is very near their peaceful village.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Cliff-dwellings have been found that are entirely deserted, built by a very ancient people of whom we know little.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") Curious relics of dishes, cloth, and ornaments are found in these cliff-dwellings, but no one knows how many centuries since the empty houses were filled with living people, and no one knows why they were deserted.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Some have thought the Zuñis are the descendants of this lost race; others think them to be like the mound-builders.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") The Zuñi Indians weave handsome wool blankets in handmade looms.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") They invented these looms themselves.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") They sell or trade these blankets to Indians of many other tribes.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The Zuñi and other Pueblos make very good dishes of red clay.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Their common cooking ware is much like the dishes seen in wigwams.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") They make handsome pitchers, vases, and table dishes of a brown color.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") They understand the working and coloring of clay, and the value of the different kinds.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") They make a common black ware, which is sometimes used instead of the red ware.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") Their very best work is of a cream-white color, and the vases and dishes are handsomely decorated with colored borders and pictures.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Many travelers have brought home fine specimens of Zuñi dishes, for their town is not far from the railroad.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") The Navajos live near the Zuñis.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") Their hogans, or homes, are not so well made as the Zuñis’ adobe houses; they are low adobe huts.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") The Navajos find time and have the skill to do some very good work in metals, although their tools are rude.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") They make some use of iron, but their best work is shown in the making and carving of ornaments and other articles of silver.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") They also have invented hand looms and are blanket weavers.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") All the Pueblos make handsome water-tight baskets of elegant shape from the fibers of the yucca plant.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") This plant, sometimes called the Spanish bayonet, from its sharp-pointed leaves, grows to a great size on the plains.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") The Pueblos color the fibers in some manner and weave handsome borders of black, white, or yellow into their baskets.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") These are used for flour or meal holders, or for holding water, and are called ollas.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") They grind their maize or other grain by hand between stones.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") They raise turkeys, and, as they are good weavers, they sometimes use the turkey feathers in weaving a downy cloth.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") The Apaches live near the Pueblos and are well known for their love of the warpath.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") They are not Village Indians, yet are noted for their fine basket weaving.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") They use the willows found in their country instead of the yucca fibers.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") The different tribes of Pueblos often use stone axes.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") It is believed that these are not made by them but were found in the deserted cliff-dwellers’ homes.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") These Village Indians make use of a plant called soaproot, the root of which will make water foam and will cleanse one’s skin the same as the white man’s soap.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indian who lives in a teepee does not know the use of soap and is not anxious for a bath.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") White people have lived for years among the Zuñi and other Pueblos and have found them patient, kind, and intelligent.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") Some of these whites have returned and have written books about the people of whose home life they have learned so much.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") Some of the habits of the Navajos are very odd.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") After the death of one of their tribe, his house, or hogan, is pulled down; if this is not done, every one who enters it fears danger.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") A Navajo will not look into the face of the mother of his wife; when they talk together he looks on the ground or in another direction.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") It is said a Navajo once forgot himself and, looking up, became blind.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") They believe that the souls of the women of their tribe enter fish when they leave this world; and they rarely eat fish for that reason.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") Indian customs and manners are taught to their children with just as much earnestness as white people teach their little ones.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") All the Pueblos make curious images or dolls of clay.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") These may possibly be idols, but are not always, for both old and young sometimes play with them as toys.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") They are a religious people.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") They believe in a Great Spirit and in a future life.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") Their forms of worship are very strange and sometimes cruel.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") The tribes called Pueblos of New Mexico are not included with those which continue to live in the twenty-seven Pueblo towns, for whatever may have been their customs in past centuries, they are now very different from the Village Indians, who still live and worship after the manner of their ancestors.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/16/) - next →: [The Moki Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/18/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)