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Pueblo Indians: Spanish Crown
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Influences: When the early Navajo people traveled to southwestern United States they met the Pueblo Indians. The Navajo farming, clothing, weaving, and pottery have Pueblo influences. When the Spanish settled in the southwest in the 1600's they brought horses and sheep with them from Europe. The Navajo stole the animals from the Spanish and learned how to use them in their daily life. The Navajo and the Spanish did not always get along. Spaniards fought the people, made them prisoners and used them as servants.
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The Franciscans Friars imposed taxes on the Pueblo Indians. The only way Puebloans had to pay these taxes was with labor, corn, pottery, and blankets. At first, most of the Pueblo Indians accepted the Franciscan Friars, but over the years, resentment grew against the taxation and the Spanish religious oppression.
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The pueblos were independent villages, and the Indians spoke many dialects of several distinct languages. Occasionally an uprising against the Spanish would begin in one pueblo, but it would be squashed before it could spread to neighboring pueblos. Leaders were hanged, others enslaved.
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A year later, OtermÃn and his men returned to the north, destroying crops, setting fire to several pueblos, and killing many Indians. The Spanish ... brought back another group of Isleta Tigua hostages to Ysleta.
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