Morning Star Gallery is showing a floral-embellished polychrome jar, 19 inches high, whose maker was a Zia, one of the Pueblo tribes.

Many modern Pueblo tribes trace their lineage from settlements.

He was surrounded by Apaches, Navajos and numerous Pueblo tribes whose people have lived in well-ordered communities along the Rio Grande for nearly a thousand years.

The Ancestral Pueblo, or Anasazi (up to 1400 CE) are the ancestors of today's Pueblo tribes.

During his time in New Mexico, Couse studied and painted the lives and culture of the Taos Indians, a Pueblo tribe.

The area in which they occur coincides with that in which other traces of the Pueblo tribes have been found.

To the Pueblo tribes, whose ancestors brought the seed from the more southern Americas, blue corn is more than a treat for the tongue.

Following their success, the different Pueblo tribes, separated by hundreds of miles and six different languages, quarreled as to who would occupy Santa Fe and rule over the country.

It includes 15 Pueblo tribes, the Jicarilla Apache Nation and the Navajo Nation.

They'd assimilated into a number of Pueblo tribes, and into mainstream culture so thoroughly that most of them didn't know where their blood ran from.