Identifier: indianspioneersh00haza (find matches)
Title: Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Hazard, Blanche Evans Dutton, Samuel Train, 1849-1919, ed
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: New York, The Morse company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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haps they always lived in the cliffs andhad only their fields below. Certainly they couldnot have grown anything on the bare rocks. THE PUEBLOS. Another ancient people who lived in the south-west were the Pueblos. They were foiuid by theSpaniards and called by a Spanish word whichmeans village. The word is used for the people,their houses and their villages. In fact, a pueblohouse was often like a village or a portion of a vil-lage. Over a hundred families sometimes, livedunder the same roof, or, rather, above the samefoundation. No one knows how many centuries agosome of these houses were built. Many of them,partly in ruins, are standing now, and are thehomes of the descendants of those who built them. The Pueblos houses were built in a sort of semi-circle or in a rectangle about an open court, fromwhich one story rose after another in terraceslike an ancient amphitheatre or the tiers of seatsabout a modern baseball field. The rooms aboutthe court were but one story high. Behind them
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EAnLtES-r DAYS t.V AMERICA. 49 rose another, and Ixdiind tlieni another, till thebaek of the liouse was sometimes six stories high.The lower rooms appear to have had no doorsor windows for eitlier lig-ht or people to enter fromwitliout ; hnt in the floor of each second storyroom tliere was a, trap-door or scuttle-hole into theroom beneath. The lower rooms were used ascellars for storing grain and other food. Eachfamily probably controlled the cellar below itslivincr room. The roofs were made of loo-s, withbrush and bark laid over them, and a top-coatingof mud several inches thick. There were no stairsin any part of the pueblos. Ladders were usuallyleft standing on every roof or terrace, so thatpeople could go from one to another till theyreached the apartment they wanted. At sign ofthe coming of an enemy, though, all ladders werequickly pulled up. THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE. All the people in one of these great house-townsas they have been called, were sometimes unitedunder the command of

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