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Zuni people
Sign in to saveAlso known as Zuni, A:shiwi, Zuñi, Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico
Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley
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- indigenous peoples of North America
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- English language
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Map of historical distribution of Zuni (light green) and current Zuni land (dark green)
The Zuni (Zuni: A:shiwi; formerly spelled Zuñi) are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley. The Zuni people today are federally recognized as the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, and most live in the Pueblo of Zuni on the Zuni River, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, in western New Mexico, United States. The Pueblo of Zuni is 55 km (34 mi) south of Gallup, New Mexico. Traditional Zuni homes in the Pueblo are multi level adobe houses. In addition to the reservation, the tribe owns trust lands in Catron County, New Mexico, and Apache County, Arizona. The Zuni call their homeland Halona Idiwan’a or Middle Place. The word Zuni is believed to derive from the Western Keres language (Acoma) word sɨ̂‧ni, or a cognate thereof.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zuni people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.