The Zuni people call their homeland Halona Idiwan'a or Middle Place.
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20 Facts About Zuni people
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The word Zuni people is believed to derive from the Western Keres language word s??ni, or a cognate thereof.
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Archaeology suggests that the Zuni people have been farmers in their present location for 3, 000 to 4, 000 years.
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Likewise, Zuni people ancestors were in contact with the Ancestral Puebloans at Chaco Canyon around 1100.
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The Zuni people settlement called Village of the Great Kivas, was built around 1100, and included nine kivas.
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The Zuni people did move from the eastern portion of their territory to the western side, and built six new villages, Halona, Hawikuh, Kiakima, Matsaki, Kwakina, and Kechipaun.
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Shortly afterwards, the Zuni people destroyed the missions, killing two priests, and then retreated to Dowa Yalanne, where they remained for the next three years.
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Zuni people Reservation was created by the United States federal government in 1877, and enlarged by a second Executive order in 1883.
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Zuni people was one of the first non-native participant-observers and ethnologists at Zuni.
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Image of Zuni Pueblo created during the U S Army Corps of Topographical Engineers's 1851 expedition to Arizona which was led by Captain Sitgreaves.
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Lutakawi, Zuni Governor, photographed before 1925 by Edward S Curtis.
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The Zuni people have inhabited the Zuni River valley since the last millennium BCE.
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Zuni people traditionally speak the Zuni people language, a language isolate that has no known relationship to any other Native American language.
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Linguists believe that the Zuni people have maintained the integrity of their language for 6, 000-to-7, 000 years.
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The Zuni people do, however, share a number of words from Keresan, Hopi, and Pima pertaining to religion.
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The Zuni people continue to practice their traditional religion with its regular ceremonies and dances, and an independent and unique belief system.
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Gradually the Zuni people farmed less and turned to sheep and cattle herding as a means of economic development.
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Zuni people have developed knowledge of local plants that are used for medical practices and religious rites.
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Zuni people make fetishes and necklaces for the purpose of rituals and trade, and more recently for sale to collectors.
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Zuni people jewelers set hand-cut turquoise and other stones in silver.
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