Kereses

Noun

Keres (countable and uncountable, plural Keres or Kereses)

1. (collective, in plural) An indigenous Pueblo people of New Mexico that speak the Keres language.
2. (countable) An individual member of these people.
   • When a Keres dies, a priesthood supervises the burial, not the clan. Members are summoned to the corpse with an offering of corn meal held out in the left hand, routinely associated with the dead (Stevenson 1894, 143). The body is washed by kinswomen, and dressed by kinsmen, who also bury it. Four...2007, Jay Miller, Keresan Pueblos and Chaco Canyon Speculations on Language Identity, Puebloan Cultures, and Southwestern Prehistory, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025, page 54

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