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Anasazi is a Navajo name for the ancient Pueblo peoples. The Navajo lived, and sometimes still live, in hogans in scattered family groupings not in pueblos which are small villages or towns. The Pueblo people are the direct descendants of the Anasazi.
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Is there another name for the pueblo dwellers in Colorado?
Anasazi
Name an Indian tribe from New Mexico?
There are the various pueblo people, the Navajo, Ute and Apache.
Why ancient cliff dwellers called Anasazi?
Anasazi is from a Navajo word: ánaasází. It means ancestors of our enemies or of the strangers (not Navajo people). It is sometimes translated now as ancient ones. When white Americans first started exploring the ruins in the 1880s they had Navajo guides and workmen. These men gave them this name. The Navajo are thought to have entered the area around 1100 to 900 years ago and would have encountered these people. When the clans moved out to the locations where Pueblo people are today, the Navajo did not occupy these sites because of cultural taboos about pollution and sickness from possible contact with the dead. But they knew and the Pueblo people knew who had lived there before and thus their name for them.
What does the ancient Arizona Indian name mean?
If you are thinking of the Anasazi people, the name has been applied in modern times and it is definitely not the real name of those very ancient Pueblo people - we can never know what they called themselves.Anasazi is from the Navajo term Anaasází, meaning "ancient enemies".
What is the common name for the ancient pueblo people that built sandstone dwellings along cliffsides?
Anasazi
What was another name for anasazi?
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What was another name for the Anasazi?
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Why is the Anasazi tribe named Anasazi?
The word Anasazi comes from the Navajo name for the ancestors of the Modern Pueblo peoples. The word in Navajo is: Anaasází, it means ancestors of our enemies. Anaai' means enemy or stranger. For example the "anaaji" is the Navajo ceremony for too much contact with people or things outside the four sacred mountains or for those coming bakc from war. It is often called the "enemy way ceremony". The name for the pre Pueblo peoples was picked up by Americans from the Navajo when they first came to the 4 corners area and started doing archeology inn the late 1800's.As it says below some Pueblo groups do not now like the term. As they were their direct ancesors we should respect that. It is not however like the "n" word. No one on the Hopi rez or Zuni or other places really thinks or feels that.Actually, no one knows. People believe that the Anasazibelieved in gods and spirits. Most dwellers of the valley and around the 4- corners region and countryside. Also, please if you do read this, don't call the Anasazi peoples the Anasazi. Recent studies show that they should formerly be called the Pre-Pueblean peoples. Anasazi is actually more of a slang term for these peoples. Anasazi is to Pre-Peublean Peoples as the "N" word is to Peoples of African descent (IE. Africans, African-Americans). Thank you so much. The Pre-Puebleans peoples were secretive and most of their artifacts were destroyed by White men such as Spanish Conquistadors and such.
How do you spell anazasi?
The correct spelling of the proper name is Anasazi, a Native American tribe of the southwest US commonly known as the Pueblo Indians.
What is another name for pueblo?
Town, or village.
Another name for a adobe village?
Pueblo
What is another name for spanish town?
un pueblo
