Questioning “Conventional Wisdom”: The Impacts of the Spanish Colonial Church on Rio Grande Pueblo Marriage Practices and Social Organization

2021 ◽  
pp. 000-000
Author(s):  
David H. Snow
1942 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Solon Kimball ◽  
John Provinse

The historic southwestern homeland of the Navajo included the country west of the Chama river in northern New Mexico. To the north of them were the Utes, a migratory hunting and gathering peoples, living in widely scattered family bands; to the east along the Rio Grande valley were various sedentary agricultural pueblo peoples. When the Navajo first arrived in the Southwest they were probably a migratory hunting peoples, but their association with a sedentary population and the adoption of the techniques of cultivation must have produced marked changes in their economy.


2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret E. Beck ◽  
Sarah Trabert

AbstractNative American communities underwent significant upheaval, ethnic blending, and restructuring in the Spanish colonial period. One archaeological example is the appearance of a seven-room stone and adobe structure in western Kansas, known as the Scott County Pueblo (14SC1). Previous researchers used Spanish documents to attribute the site to Puebloan refugees from Taos or Picuris in the mid- to late 1600s. Here we examine the Smithsonian and Kansas Historical Society ceramic collections for evidence of Puebloan women at the site. We find a high proportion of bowls at 14SC1, suggesting the maintenance of Puebloan food-preparation and-serving patterns, as well as some vessels apparently made by Puebloan potters in western Kansas. We cannot falsify our null hypothesis that the Scott County Pueblo included people from one or more northern Rio Grande pueblos during the mid-1600s, or A.D. 1696–1706, or both.


1942 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
Solon Kimball ◽  
John Provinse

The historic southwestern homeland of the Navajo included the country west of the Chama river in northern New Mexico. To the north of them were the Utes, a migratory hunting and gathering peoples, living in widely scattered family bands; to the east along the Rio Grande valley were various sedentary agricultural pueblo peoples. When the Navajo first arrived in the Southwest they were probably a migratory hunting peoples, but their association with a sedentary population and the adoption of the techniques of cultivation must have produced marked changes in their economy.


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