Jumanos

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Jumanos

• The Jumanos lived in the Mountains and Basins
  Region.

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Pueblos

• They lived in pueblos, which means means "town
  in Spanish.

3
Pueblos

• Many Pueblos had hundreds of people living in
  them. Some Pueblos were 4 or 5 stories high.

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Pueblo Buildings

• Pueblos are made of adobe.
• Adobe is a type of brick made from straw and mud.

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Pueblo Buildings

• A horno is a kind of oven used by Pueblo Indians
  to cook bread and tortillas in.
• They used their roof like a porch.

6
Pottery

• They stored and cooked their food in well-made
  pottery.

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Farming

• The dry land made it hard to farm.
• The Jumano irrigated their crops from nearby
  streams and rivers
• They got a lot of their water from the Rio Grande
• They grew Maize (corn), beans and squash

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Jumano Food

• They raised cotton that they used to make cloth.
  They also raised gourds that could be dried out
  and used as containers.

9
Some Jumanos

• Some Jumanos were nomads and hunted buffalo.
  Since they moved often, they lived in teepees.

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Jumano Jobs

• The men cleared the fields and prepared the soil.
  
• The women did most of the farming. They used
  sharp sticks to poke holes in the dirt and put
  seeds in each hole.
• The children would walk the fields every day and
  pick insects off the plants by hand and would
  pull up weeds.

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Dancing

• There were important religious ceremonies and
  dances
• To pray for rain and protection of their crops
• to celebrate and give thanks when the crops came
  in
• With the Spanish, came diseases that killed many
  of the Pueblo Indians.
• Others were killed fighting off the Spanish
  invaders that wanted their land.

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Why did the Jumanos disappear?