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Pueblo Houses In Native Americans
The Native Americans of the Southwest lived in pueblos or adobe houses. The adobe houses were made out of dried clay. The pueblo houses is were they mostly lived. Because they were in the Southwest which is mostly dried desert land, the clay houses dried up really quickly because of the desert sun. Some pueblos also were made out of stone. Those are what we call stone pueblos. Most stone pueblos were used as ritual or religious places. The adobe houses were helpful and useful for the Native Americans of the Southwest because it was where they slept and lived, and used for shelter against the weather. Most of the pueblos were in villages. Most of the tribe lived in pueblo villages. The amount of family who lived in the adobe/pueblos were

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