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Zuni

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The Zuni (A:shiwi; formerly spelled Zuñi) are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley. [1]

73 relations: A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center, Ancestral Puebloans, Anthropologist, Apache, Apache County, Arizona, Aquifer, Arizona, Catron County, New Mexico, Cattle, Ceremony, Clay, Coal mining, Colorado, Craft, Deity, Dowa Yalanne, English language, Estevanico, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Gallup, New Mexico, Handbook of North American Indians, Hawikuh Ruins, Herding, Hopi, Indian rodeo, Irrigation, Kachina, Keres language, Kiln, Language isolate, Lapidary, List of federally recognized tribes, Little Colorado River, Los Angeles Times, Maize, Marcos de Niza, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Mesa, Michigan State University, Mogollon culture, Moors, Mosaic, Mother goddess, Native Americans in the United States, Navajo, Necklace, Needlepoint, New Mexico, Pima people, ..., Plains Indians, Pottery, Precious coral, Project Gutenberg, Pueblo Revolt, Puebloans, Sheep, Smithsonian Institution, Spanish colonization of the Americas, Tent stitch, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Turquoise, United States, Utah, Yucca, Zuni ethnobotany, Zuni fetishes, Zuni Indian Reservation, Zuni language, Zuni mythology, Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, Zuni River, Zuni Salt Lake. Expand index (23 more) »

A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center

The A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center is located in Zuni, New Mexico, United States.

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Ancestral Puebloans

The Ancestral Puebloans were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.

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Anthropologist

An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology.

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Apache

The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Salinero, Plains and Western Apache.

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Apache County, Arizona

Apache County is located in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Aquifer

An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Catron County, New Mexico

Catron County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Cattle

Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

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Ceremony

A ceremony is an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion.

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Clay

Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Craft

A craft or trade is a pastime or a profession that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work.

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Deity

A deity is a supernatural being considered divine or sacred.

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Dowa Yalanne

Dowa Yalanne (Zuni: "Corn Mountain") is a steep mesa southeast of the present Pueblo of Zuni, on the Zuni Indian Reservation.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Estevanico

Estevanico (c. 1500–1539) was one of the first native Africans to reach the present-day continental United States.

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Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján (1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.

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Frank Hamilton Cushing

Frank Hamilton Cushing (July 22, 1857 in North East Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania – April 10, 1900 in Washington DC) was an American anthropologist and ethnologist.

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Gallup, New Mexico

Gallup (Naʼnízhoozhí) is a city in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States, with a population of 21,678 as of the 2010 census.

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Handbook of North American Indians

The Handbook of North American Indians is a monographic series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in Americanist studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 1978.

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Hawikuh Ruins

Hawikuh (Hawikku, "gum leaves" in ZuniLanmon, Dwight P. and Harlow, Francis, "A brief history of the Ashiwi (Zuni) pueblos", in The pottery of Zuni Pueblo, 2008, Museum of New Mexico Press.), was one of the largest of the Zuni pueblos at the time of the Spanish entrada.

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Herding

Herding is the act of bringing individual animals together into a group (herd), maintaining the group, and moving the group from place to place—or any combination of those.

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Hopi

The Hopi are a Native American tribe, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona.

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Indian rodeo

Indian rodeo is the rodeo subculture of Native American rodeo athletes and, in Canada, First Nations athletes.

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Irrigation

Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.

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Kachina

A kachina (also katchina, katcina, or katsina; Hopi: katsina, plural katsinim) is a spirit being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo people, Native American cultures located in the southwestern part of the United States.

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Keres language

Keresan, also Keres, is a Native American language, spoken by the Keres Pueblo people in New Mexico.

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Kiln

A kiln (or, originally pronounced "kill", with the "n" silent) is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.

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Language isolate

A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language.

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Lapidary

A lapidary (lapidarist, lapidarius) is an artist or artisan who forms stone, minerals, or gemstones into decorative items such as cabochons, engraved gems (including cameos), and faceted designs.

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List of federally recognized tribes

There is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States of America.

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Little Colorado River

The Little Colorado River (Hopi: Paayu) is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. state of Arizona, providing the principal drainage from the Painted Desert region.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Marcos de Niza

Fray Marcos de Niza (March 25, 1558) was a Spanish missionary and Franciscan friar.

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Matilda Coxe Stevenson

Matilda Coxe Stevenson (née Evans) (May 12, 1849 – June 24, 1915), who also wrote under the name Tilly E. Stevenson, was an American ethnologist, born in San Augustine, Texas.

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Mesa

Mesa (Spanish and Portuguese for table) is the American English term for tableland, an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs.

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Michigan State University

Michigan State University (MSU) is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States.

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Mogollon culture

Mogollon culture is an archaeological culture of Native American peoples from Southern New Mexico and Arizona, Northern Sonora and Chihuahua, and Western Texas, a region known as Oasisamerica.

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Moors

The term "Moors" refers primarily to the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Malta during the Middle Ages.

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Mosaic

A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.

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Mother goddess

A mother goddess is a goddess who represents, or is a personification of nature, motherhood, fertility, creation, destruction or who embodies the bounty of the Earth.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Navajo

The Navajo (British English: Navaho, Diné or Naabeehó) are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.

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Necklace

A necklace is an article of jewelry that is worn around the neck.

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Needlepoint

Needlepoint is a form of counted thread embroidery in which yarn is stitched through a stiff open weave canvas.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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Pima people

The Pima (or Akimel O'odham, also spelled Akimel O'otham, "River People", formerly known as Pima) are a group of Native Americans living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona.

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Plains Indians

Plains Indians, Interior Plains Indians or Indigenous people of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nation band governments who have traditionally lived on the greater Interior Plains (i.e. the Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies) in North America.

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Pottery

Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up pottery wares, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain.

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Precious coral

Precious coral, or red coral, is the common name given to a genus of marine corals, Corallium.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

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Pueblo Revolt

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680—also known as Popé's Rebellion—was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present day New Mexico.

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Puebloans

The Puebloans or Pueblo peoples are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material and religious practices.

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Sheep

Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The overseas expansion under the Crown of Castile was initiated under the royal authority and first accomplished by the Spanish conquistadors.

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Tent stitch

Tent stitch is a small, diagonal needlepoint stitch that crosses over the intersection of one horizontal (weft) and one vertical (warp) thread of needlepoint canvas forming a slanted stitch at a 45-degree angle.

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The Santa Fe New Mexican

The Santa Fe New Mexican or simply The New Mexican is a daily newspaper published in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Turquoise

Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrated phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Yucca

Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae.

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Zuni ethnobotany

This is a list of plants and how they are used in Zuni culture.

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Zuni fetishes

Zuni fetishes are small carvings made from various materials by the Zuni people.

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Zuni Indian Reservation

The Zuni Indian Reservation, also known as Pueblo of Zuni, is the homeland of the Zuni tribe of Native Americans.

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Zuni language

Zuni (also formerly Zuñi) is a language of the Zuni people, indigenous to western New Mexico and eastern Arizona in the United States.

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Zuni mythology

Zuni mythology is the oral history, cosmology, and religion of the Zuni people.

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Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico

Zuni Pueblo (Zuni: Shiwinna, also Zuñi Pueblo and Pueblo de Zuñi) is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States.

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Zuni River

The Zuni (Zuñi) River is a tributary of the Little Colorado River in the southwestern United States.

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Zuni Salt Lake

Zuni Salt Lake, also Zuñi Salt Lake is a rare high desert lake, and a classic maar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuni

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