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When European settlers - and later North american settlers - arrived to contact with Indigenous American tribes on the continent, these were frequently struggling to differentiate between your subcultures within specific tribes. This resulted in all types of misunderstandings. Once the Spanish arrived to contact with different tribes in the Southwest, they classified many of them as Pueblo. Thus, some Americans have heard about the Pueblo and Navajo, many continue to be not really acquainted with distinctions within the tribes. The Pueblo fascinated those who found their settlements, especially those situated in desert areas and the edges of cliffs. One particular settlement, Oraibi, was created around AD 1100. It remains one of the oldest continually inhabited settlements in North America. The Spanish were so intrigued by the composition of the neighborhoods that they offered the natives the name Pueblo, a term they used to evaluate certain sizes for their own settlements. Today's Puebloan tribes are descended from tribes known as the "ancestral Puebloan people", one which was the Anasazi. The name Anasazi came from their enemies; this is a Navajo word that means "enemy ancestor". While that name understandably is constantly on the offend the descendants of the Anasazi, it also underscores that there is still a great deal of uncertainty about the record of the Anasazi. It is still unclear the particular Anasazi called themselves, and even though they resided nearby the "Four Corners" area of Utah, Az, Colorado, and New Mexico for more than 700 years, they mysteriously forgotten their settlements shortly after they truly commenced to flourish around AD 1050-1150.
