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Zuni
Zuñi , pueblo (1990 pop. 7,405), McKinley co., W N.Mex., in the Zuñi Reservation; built c.1695. Its inhabitants are Pueblo of the Zuñian linguistic family. They are a sedentary people, who farm irrigated land and are noted for basketry, pottery, turquoise jewelry, and weaving,... Read more |
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Cibola
CIBOLA CIBOLA, an Indian name for the villages of the Zuni in what is now western New Mexico, rumored in the early sixteenth century to be fabulously wealthy. In 1539 the Spanish dispatched an expedition under Friar Marcos de Niza, guided by a Moorish man named Esteban. Esteban went ahead but was... Read more |
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kachina
kachina , spirit of the invisible life forces of the Pueblo of North America. The kachinas, or kachinam, are impersonated by elaborately costumed masked male members of the tribes who visit Pueblo villages the first half of the year. In a variety of ceremonies, they dance, sing, bring gifts to the... Read more |
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Ruth Fulton Benedict
Ruth Fulton Benedict 1887-1948, American anthropologist, b. New York City, grad. Vassar, 1909, Ph.D. Columbia, 1923. She was a student and later a colleague of Franz Boas at Columbia, where she taught from 1924. She did fieldwork among Native Americans and studied contemporary European and Asian... Read more |
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Zuni
Zuni Pueblo Native Americans who live on the Zuni reservation in w New Mexico, USA. The present pueblo is on the site of one of the seven Zuni villages discovered by Marcos de Niza in the early 16th century... |
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Pueblo
...and New Mexico. They belong to several language families, including Keresan, Tewa, Hopi, and Zuni. The multi-storeyed buildings of the Zuni gave rise to the legendary ‘Seven Cities of Cíbola’ eagerly sought by the Spaniards. |
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Cretaceous
...cratons are covered by the chalky limestones that mark the extent of the late Cretaceous very high sea level. In North America the Zuni synthem (sequence) represents a major transgression from the margins of the craton towards the interior, and equivalent transgressions... |
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mythology and the body
...and survival, with female bodily properties of fertility and barrenness, and the processes of gestation and childbirth. A Zuni myth from the present-day south-western US describes the beginnings of the world as a series of four wombs, in which the... |
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Zuni
Zuni, USA New Mexico: a river and a town named after the Zuni people. |
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clan
...segmented into lineages, which are the branches of descent from a common ancestor. Classic works on clans include A. L. Kroeber , Zuni Kin and Clan (1917), Raymond Firth , We, the Tikopia (1936), and E. E. Evans-Pritchard , The Nuer (1940). See also... |
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ZUNI MARKET A LABOR DAY HIT; History as well as artists' displays
...Tsethlikia, a cultural interpreter for the Office of Zuni Tourism,arrived at the Museum of Northern Arizona long before the doors opened onthe popular Zuni Marketplace. A member of the Zuni Pueblo of New Mexico,Tsethlikia served as a Labor... |
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Zuni and the American Imagination. .(Book Review)
Zuni and the American Imagination, ELIZA MCFEELY...century ethnographers' encounters with the Zuni (Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest...anthropologists as they attempted to preserve parts of Zuni culture -- not in Zuni itself, but in the... |
 "The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)")
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ZUNIS TAKE FIGHT AGAINST MINE TO SENATE.(Main)
...mine site could result in harm to the Zuni Salt Lake. The lake, which is fed...11 miles from the proposed mine. The Zunis and other Indians regard the lake as...concluded the mine operations could harm Zuni Salt Lake. Hydrologists retained by... |
 "Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY)")
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Zuni Salt Lake mining okayed: Pueblo vows to fight
...ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Resignation tinged Zuni Pueblo Lt. Governor BartonMartze's voice for only a moment."Now it looks like Zuni has lost another fight," Barton began...andindividuals that are now coming to assist the Zuni tribe," Barton continuedon a more dogged... |
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Zuni Battle for Sacred Site Prevents Coal Strip-Mine Development.
...Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 27--ZUNI PUEBLO, N.M.--Zuni people stood up for cultural values and won the struggle to protect Salt Mother and the Zuni Salt Lake from damage from a proposed coal strip mine... |
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ZUNI WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENTS:COMMISSIONER JOE CARTER
...ARIZONA GAME AND FISH COMMISSION ON THE ZUNI INDIAN TRIBE SETTLEMENT ACT OF 2002 COMMITTEE...agreement that is the foundation for the Zuni Indian Tribe Settlement Act of 2002. In...particular, it will allow Game and Fish and the Zuni Tribe to realize their mutually ... |
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Zuni and supporters gather to fight coal mine
...triballeaders from the Pueblo of Zuni; the Pueblos of Acoma, Laguna...tribal runners; members of the Zuni Salt Lake Coalition and otherenvironmental...pilgrimage trails used by the Zunis and othertribes for centuries...the mine will harm the sacred Zuni Salt ... |
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Zuni battle for sacred site a win - prevents coal strip mine development
...Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 08-27-2003 ZUNI PUEBLO, N.M. - Zuni people stood up for cultural values and won thestruggle to protect Salt Mother and the Zuni Salt Lake from damage from aproposed coal strip mine... |
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The Zuni Man-Woman. (book reviews)
...and times of We'wha, one of several Zuni Lhamanas, (2) a critique and attempted...lies in situating We'wha in historic Zuni Pueblo and in an America intent on modernizing...Americans first turned their attention to Zuni Pueblo, We'wha befriended ethnographer... |
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Two Zuni Artists: A Tale of Art and Mystery
Two Zuni Artists: A Tale of Art and...7] An 1873 photograph of Zuni separates the preface from the...Even in the Middle Place, the Zunis' name for their homeland...the eternal conflict between Zuni brothers and Zuni sisters... |
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