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Answer for the clue "Native American town ", 6 letters:
pueblo

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Word definitions for pueblo in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Indian village," 1808, from Spanish pueblo "village, small town; people, population," from Latin populum , accusative of populus "people" (see people (n.)).

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 141472 Housing Units (2000): 58926 Land area (2000): 2388.687157 sq. miles (6186.671073 sq. km) Water area (2000): 9.040340 sq. miles (23.414372 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2397.727497 sq. miles (6210.085445 sq. km) Located within: Colorado ...

Usage examples of pueblo.

So it is here that we find extraordinarily well-preserved mummies, for example, and an ancient mud brick pueblo, Aldea de Tulor, that dates to about 800 BC.

Beckwith took the lead after debating whether he should send Espe back to the pueblo.

This time Beckwith took the lead after debating whether he should send Espe back to the pueblo.

The American nations among whom a distinct and well-authenticated myth of the deluge was found are as follows: Athapascas, Algonkins, Iroquois, Cherokees, Chikasaws, Caddos, Natchez, Dakotas, Apaches, Navajos, Mandans, Pueblo Indians, Aztecs, Mixtecs, Zapotecs, Tlascalans, Mechoacans, Toltecs, Nahuas, Mayas, Quiches, Haitians, natives of Darien and Popoyan, Muyscas, Quichuas, Tuppinambas, Achaguas, Araucanians, and doubtless others.

Examples were seen in Canyon de Chelly, at Mummy Cave, and at Hungo Pavie and Pueblo Bonito on the Chaco.

A number of beams, rafters, and roofing planks, seen in the Chaco pueblos, were probably squared and finished in this way.

To give Blizzard a little lecture on how the Tano people, and most of the other Pueblos, kept their religious duties very much to themselves.

Out there at BC57, across the wash from Pueblo Bonito, because she found a lot of his pots there broken in the process of being made.

Near the roofs of many of the caves are mortises, projecting from which, in many instances, were found the decayed ends of wooden beams or sleepers, which were probably used, as they are now in the modern Pueblo dwellings, as poles over which to hang blankets and clothing, or to dry meat.

Someone had built a fire on the ground outside the potrero and there were something like a hundred people gathered, some come from the pueblo of La Vega six miles to the south, some from farther.

Casually, Charley sauntered down to the end of the street of square two-story adobe buildings on which he lived, looked in every direction, ducked into the old kiva to pick up the tortillas and the canteen, and ran off into the scrubby underbrush that bordered the pueblo.

There was a large potted cactus in one corner and on the walls were abstract, color-matched serigraphs of desert scenery and pueblo dwellings.

I undertook solitary terrifying voyages, hardly knowing my clutch from my elbow, driving down to Bernalillo, up to Farm-ington, over to the Rio Puerco country, even making a vast expedition out to Hopi, going to all sorts of places where, in violation of local archaeological ordinances, the farmers raid unexcavated ruined pueblos and winkle out salable merchandise.

This has subjected it in part to the same influences that had at an earlier date produced the carefully walled fortress pueblos of the valleys, where the defensive efficiency was due to well planned and constructed buildings.

In excavating a room in the ancient pueblo of Kin-tiel, a completely preserved fireplace, about a foot deep, and walled in with thin slabs of stone set on edge, was brought to light.