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The cliff dwellers of the Southwestern United States came from distinct but perhaps related cultures. Construction of the cliff dwellings started around 1000AD and they had mostly been abandoned by 1300.
In the Four Corners area the people who lived there likely came from the Chaco Canyon area, and dispersed to settlements on more fertile land. Many of these Pueblos still exist today. Some may be the longest continuously-inhabited places in North America. Acoma has existed since 1200 and, new excavations suggest, perhaps since before the time of Christ[1]. Oraibi on Hopiland's Third Mesa, was established in 1100.
Nomenclature
Cliff dwellers of the Four Corners area are generally called Pueblo ancestors or Ancestral Pueblo Peoples, although they have also been called Anasazi. However, this name means "ancestors of our enemies" in Navajo and may offend present-day Pueblo.[2] The Hopi sometimes use the word Hisatsinom[3], which also means ancestors. Some academics seem to be adopting this term.
Current Pueblo Settlements
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Acoma, continuously inhabited since 1150[4], is the only Native American member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. | Example | thumb | |||
Cochiti | Example | thumb | |||
Isleta | Southern Tiwa, a possibly endangered Kiowa-Tanoan language | thumb | |||
Jemez | [www.jemezpueblo.com Towa] | Laguna Pueblo | Western Keresan | |||
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Ohkay Owingeh, was also called the name the Spanish gave it, San Juan Pueblo, until 2005. It was probably settled around 1200[5]. | Example | Example | |||
Picurus Pueblo has historic ties to Pot Creek an Anasazi outlier site, and the Park Service maintains a site in Kansas where a group of Picuris and Apaches lived | Northern Tiwa | Example | |||
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Sandia Pueblo's tribal government both operates a casino-resort and maintains a herd of buffalo on tribal land | Southern Tiwa, a Tanoan language | Kewa Pueblo, until 2009 known as Santo Domingo, the name the Spanish gave it. | Eastern Keresan | Example | |
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Abandoned Pueblos Pecos Pueblo bustled in its heyday but disease, raids and migration had reduced its population to less than 300 by around 1780, when its entire population left the site and moved [6] to Jemez.
The Guadeloupe Pueblo in the Las Cruces area seems to have formed from the remnants of the Cliff Dwellings of the Pueblo Ancestors
Sinagua Cliff Dwellings in the Flagstaff Area
Sinagua in the Verde Valley
The Mogollon created the Gila Cliff Dwellings and the Mimbres culture may have grown from theirs. Emil Haury first made the case for the Mogollon as a a separate culture, although he is better known for his Hohokam excavations at Snaketown.
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