The key technology of the Pueblo peoples was their irrigation techniques.

This was Spain's first contact with any of the Pueblo peoples.

In return for these services, Pueblo peoples were required to pay a tax, or 'tribute.'

The snake's body movements seem alive; a tribute to the appreciation the Pueblo peoples have for nature and life.

Historically, the Apache culture seems to have been similar to the Pueblo peoples of the area.

Jacal is a traditional adobe house built by the ancestral Pueblo peoples.

Statues of native Pueblo peoples carrying pottery and hunting dot the property.

The only exception was the Pueblo peoples far to the north in New Mexico.

Some modern descendants of this culture often choose to use the term "Ancestral Pueblo" peoples.

Throughout the Ancient Pueblo People cultural eras the most important resource was water.