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“What are the Pueblo words for their federation?”There is not one language that all the Pueblos speak. Nor is there even one language family. So it could not have a name in “the pueblo language”. Also, they never had a “federation” is any way that the word would make sense. Are you referring to the cooperation they had in order to succeed in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680? This did not have a name or central organization. We know little about it and only really from garbled reports by the Spanish when they returned 12 years later. The leaders had meetings but not a “federation name”.Or perhaps you mean a modern political group to promote their interests? That is usually known in English. The All Indian Pueblo Council (AIPC) is a governmental body which advocates for the rights of Pueblo Indians and their territory across the American Southwest. The modern version started in 1922. It is said to be modeled on one that met after the 1680 Revolt. The council is run by the Pueblo governors from each of the nineteen New Mexico Pueblos of Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambe, Ohkay Owingeh, Picuris, Pojoaque, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, Sandia, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, Zia, and Zuni, as well as the Texas Pueblo, Ysleta del Sur. In the past, the meetings took a very long time because of the large number of languages. Today it meets in English with translators for older members. It is an important political force in today’s New Mexico.I beleive that today, Phillip A. Perez, of the Pueblo of Nambe, and Myron Armijo, of the Pueblo of Santa Ana are the co-chairs.They also have Indian Pueblos Marketing, Inc.; Pueblo Insurance Agency; and Santa Fe Indian School and a scholarship fund. They run The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center which is a non-profit run by 19 of the Pueblo governments to promote culture, art and history.http://www.indianpueblo.org/There is also the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council based at San Juan Pueblo. Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, Inc. And the Ten Southern Pueblo Governors Council based at Isleta. And the Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos Council (Cochiti, Jemez, Sandia, Santa Ana and Zia) fsipThere are 21 surviving Pueblos today. At the time of the Pueblo revolt there were 46. Forty two of these joined the Revolt. Each was politically independent. Some were politically hostile to each other. The area was centered on the Rio Grande valley but included areas 200 miles west and 50 miles east. They co-operated but did not have anything we could call a “federation”. It was not like the Iroquois Confederation or the Iron Confederation. During the Revolt unity was centered around a little understood Millenarian movement lead by Po’pay who was a Tewa speaker from Ohkay Owingeh. His “lieutenants” were Alonso Catiti from Santo Domingo (Keres speaker) and Luis Tupatu from Picuris (Tiwa language). We don’t have a name for this movement that united them. A new paradise was supposed to come. All Spanish and Christian items needed to be destroyed. Spanish livestock was killed for set free. Fruit trees were cut down. Wheat and barley was forbidden. Ritual baths were needed to purify. Christian marriages dissolved. But there was no general name for them as a whole.Other leaders were: Antonio Malacate (Cochiti); Domingo Romero (Tesuque); El Saca (Taos); Domingo Naranjo and Cajete at Santa Clara; Tagu from Ohkay; Antonio Bolsas and Christibal Yope from San Lazaro; Juan El Tano from Galisteo; Luis Conixu from Jemez; Diego Xenome from Nambe; Francisco El Ollito and Nicholas de la Cruz Jonv from San IldefonsoEven with those that today we might view as one “tribe” like the Hopi, each village had independent political and religious leadership. Between 1540 and 1598 when the Spanish came to impose colonial rule and slavery and violence they numbered as many as 40,000 to 80,000. This was after the first large epidemics had come north from Mexico starting in 1519 often without even meeting a Spaniard. All the people in what are now New Mexico and Arizona were connected by trade to Central Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of California and the Pacific coast. By 1680 the population had been reduced to about 15,000. This massive loss meant a great deal of changes in languages and political organizations.Today, as well as English and sometimes Spanish, they speak languages from four different language families. Even though they are neighbors and share much culture and borrowed words these languages are not in the same family like English and German and French and Persian but in different ones like English, Chinese, Tamil, and Arabic. It is hard to exactly count how many languages there are or were because of the issue of what is a language and what is a “dialect”. There are at least eight but one is what is known as a “dialect continuum”. Some of the languages like Tompiro are competely gone and it is not really clear what it was.Here is what languages still are around.The Zuni language is in its own family. Once there were many more Zuni villages ( by Spanish contact there were 9) and it is probable that they had their own dialects.The Hopi speak one in the northern branch of Uto-Aztecan. It is in the same family as Nahuatl, but not very close to it. More like English to Greek or Persian.The Keres dialect continuum is spoken by Acoma, Laguna, Santa Ana, Zia, Cochiti, Santo Domingo, and San Felipe. It is in its own family.The Tanoan family has Towa at Jemez; Tewa at Ohkay Owingeh, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Tesuque, Nambe, Pojoaque, and at the Hopi area village of Hano. The three Tiwa languages are; Taos language, Southern Tiwa at Sandia and Isleta, and Picuris. Kiowa is also in this family.