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He did not live in a wigwam, orin a hut, as some Native Americans did, nor in a palace like that of Montezuma.  \nThe Pueblo Indians of what is now New Mexico—called the Zuni—built houses large enough for a whole tribe to live in. We now call those houses pueblos, from the Spanish word for \"village.\" These pueblos were built of stone and clay, and were many stories high. The roof of one story made a piazza for the people in the story above.  \npueblo  \nThe pueblo of Taos in New Mexico.  \nThe Pueblo Indian had to climb into his home in a strange way. First, he must climb up to the second story by means of a ladder. These ladders were made in different ways, as you see in the picture below. Then he must draw the ladder up after him; for if he did not, an enemy might climb into the pueblo. Then he must go up another ladder to another story. Then up another and another, until he reached the piazza above his own home. By still another ladder, he must go down through a trap door in his own roof. Then, at last, he was in his house.  \nBelow is a picture of the roof, showing the trap door and the end of a ladder sticking out of it. This was not an easy way to get into one's home.  \nThe Pueblo Indians had found it, however, a very safe way to live. In those days, they thought of safety first of all.  \n1. Pueblo Indians entered their homes using a  .  \na. bridge  \nb. elevator  \nc. ladder  \nd. rope  \nThe chimneys, also, of these houses were very odd compared to chimneys today. They looked like towers, for they were made of one or more bottomless jars, set one upon another. These jars were fastened firmly together with clay, and often were handsomely decorated. The drawing below is of a real pueblo chimney.  \nchimney  \nIn such a home, then, this little Pueblo prince was born. Proud indeed was the Pueblo king when he was told that a little prince was born; and away he hurried to tell the glad news to his good old mother. Then, the king's mother hurried to the home of the new little prince. She brought a nice soft blanket to wrap around the baby. But first he must be bathed in a big bowl of warm water in which yucca root had been boiled.  \nyucca root  \nNext she brought a pan of soft, warm, moist ashes, and pasted the baby with ashes from head to foot. She took great pains to leave a thick paste on the baby's face; for this, she said, would give him a beautiful complexion by and by.  \nA bed of warm sand had been made for the baby. On this his grandmother laid the prince, and  \nFree Printables and More for K-12 Education [www.STUDENTHANDOUTS.com](www.STUDENTHANDOUTS.com)  \ncovered him over with the soft blanket that she had brought.  \nEvery morning for ten days, the little prince was bathed by his grandmother in the juice of the yucca root and powdered with ashes, and laid in the warm sand to sleep.  \n2. Who bathes the baby each day for ten days?  \nOn the morning of the tenth day, a change took place in the prince's life. After he had been bathed and powdered, his grandmother carried him down the ladders of the pueblo, out upon the plain. Here his face was turned toward the rising sun. For these Pueblo people were sun worshippers, and they took great care that every Pueblo baby should behold the sun the very first time he was taken out of the house.  \nAfter the prayers were said, and the sun had smiled down upon the prince, he was taken back into the house. He was then bathed in yuccaroot water but never again was he to sleep in the little sand bed. A cradle was ready for him now —a nice little  \ncradle with a hood-like top to shield the baby's head from the wind.  \nThe parents thought it was a great day when the Pueblo baby was placed in his cradle. But the baby would rather have been left to sleep away his days and nights in the sand bed. Now his little arms and legs were straightened out and bound round an","cbCaidlGlhPJcXzm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidlGlhPJcXzm","pdf",1132388,12,"English","# The Little Pueblo Prince\n## Pueblo homes and safe entry\n## Birth preparations and the first ten days\n## First encounter with the rising sun\n## Cradle life and early childhood\n## The naming ceremony","[{\"question\":\"How do Pueblo Indians enter their homes?\",\"answer\":\"They climb to higher levels using ladders, draw the ladders up afterward, and continue ladder-to-ladder until reaching a piazza. 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