Puebloan Life and History
Chaco Canyon is located in this region.
Where is the Colorado Plateau in the Southwest United States?
Name one type of structure the Ancestral Puebloans built.
what is
Great houses, cliff palaces, towers, astronomical instruments, or roads ?
This the name other tribes and then the French gave the Haudenosaunee.
What is Iroquois?
In the confederation, this role had the final say but had to listen to everyone’s opinions first.
What is the Clan Mother?
This is the year did the Ancestral Puebloans begin building great houses and cliff palaces?,
What is 500 ce
The natural resource Pueblo farmers conserved by building stone rows and cactus barriers.
What is water?
The name of the opening address, or prayer of thanks, often spoken before meetings or ceremonies.
What is The Words that Come Before All Else?
One benefit of various tribes joining as a confederacy instead of staying separate.
What is greater strength, (or cooperation, or peace)
The method that Pueblo communities use to pass down their history instead of writing
What are Oral narratives (or oral traditions)?
The name of the scientific principle used by Pueblo farmers to design snow-catching devices for their fields.
What is Aerodynamics?
The name of Haudenosaunee houses that were long, rectangular, and could hold several families.
What are longhouses?
The Iroquois made decisions by listening to different voices until they reached this.
What is a consensus?
Pueblo farmers move their fields from time to time for this reason.
What is to let the land rest and regenerate (or “fallowing”)?
Puebloans created these to connect themselves with distant communities.
What are long-distance trade networks?
What are the Three Sisters?
The name Haudenosaunee means this.
What is "the people who are building the longhouse" (or "people of the longhouse")?
This is how Pueblo people describe time differently than Western traditions.
What is cyclical?
Besides archaeology, this other source is needed to understand Pueblo history.
What are oral traditions and knowledge?
Wampum was not money, it was used for these purposes.
What is to thank people, record agreements, treaties, and stories?
This government was (at least partly) founded on the principles followed by the Haudenosaunee system of governance.
What is the United States of America?