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Pueblo Indian Watercolors:
Map of Pueblos

Pueblo Indians live in western and central New Mexico, eastern Arizona, and western Texas. Contemporary Pueblo Indian villages are categorized by the six languages spoken by Pueblo peoples: Hopi, Zuni, Keresan, Tiwa, Towa, and Tewa.

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The Spanish term pueblo means town or village. When Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado ventured into the Pueblo Indian region (now Arizona and New Mexico) in 1540, he called the American Indians who lived in permanent towns Pueblo Indians to differentiate them from their nomadic neighbors, the Apache and Navajo. These groups today live in the same towns they have occupied for centuries.