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The Zuni tribe lived in multi level adobe houses. In addition to the reservation, the tribe owns trust lands in Catron County, New Mexico, and Apache County, Arizona. [2] The Zuni call their homeland Halona Idiwan’a or Middle Place. [3] The word Zuni is believed to derive from the Western Keres language word sɨ̂‧ni, or a cognate thereof.
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni ... cliff dwellings comprised a large number of the defensive structures of the Pueblo people. Jacal is a traditional adobe house built by the ...
The Zuni-Cibola Complex is a collection of prehistoric and historic archaeological sites on the Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico.It comprises Hawikuh, Yellow House, Kechipbowa, and Great Kivas, all sites of long residence and important in the early Spanish colonial contact period.
Ruins. One of the 12 pueblos of Tiwa Indians along both sides of the Rio Grande, north and south of present-day Bernalillo Wijiji: Ancestral Puebloan Crownpoint: Great House "Black Greasewood". Ruins located in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Heshotathluptsina (Yellow House) Zuni Zuni
The main reservation is surrounded by the Painted Cliffs, the Zuni Mountains, and the Cibola National Forest. The reservation's total land area is 723.343 sq mi (1,873.45 km 2). As noted above, the Zuni Tribe also has land holdings in Apache County, Arizona, and Catron County, New Mexico, that do not border the main reservation.
In 1844 Josiah Gregg described the historic Pueblo people in The journal of a Santa Fé trader as follows: [15] When these regions were first discovered it appears that the inhabitants lived in comfortable houses and cultivated the soil, as they have continued to do up to the present time.
Zuni Pueblo (also Zuñi Pueblo, Zuni: Halona Idiwan’a meaning "Middle Place" [4]) is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 6,176 as of the 2020 Census. [3] It is inhabited largely by members of the Zuni people.
Hawikuh is located within the boundaries of the Zuni Indian Reservation near Zuni, New Mexico. [7] The ruins of Hawikuh were excavated during 1917-23 by the Heye Foundation under the leadership of Frederick Webb Hodge , who was assistant director of the Museum of the American Indian, New York .