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Zuni Indians: Zuni Pueblo
built 643 days ago
The Zuni were and are a peaceful, deeply traditional people who lived by irrigated agriculture and now by the sale of traditional crafts. Some Zuni still live in the old style Pueblos, while others live in modern flat-roofed houses made from adobe and concrete block. Their location is relatively isolated, but they welcome respectful tourists. Carved stone animal fetishes, jewelry, needlepoint, and pottery are popular items.
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Afterwards, the Zuni fled to the top of the Dowa Yalanne mesa and prepared for defense. Between 1680 and 1692 the Zuni built and maintained a large settlement that incorporated many pueblo rooms on the mesa top, an area of less than 617 acres. Since it did not contain enough land to support the entire Zuni population, the Zuni continued to farm and graze livestock in the valleys below.
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Sacred sites play an important role in the Zuni religion, as they are the locus of many of the ritual activities performed by the various groups in the religious structure. These sacred sites include both constructed shrines and natural features of the landscape used as offering places. Many sacred sites are associated with ancestral ruins where the Zuni people resided during their migration from the place of emergence in the Grand Canyon to the center of the universe at Zuni Pueblo. There is a wide range in the geographical setting of sacred sites, including high mountain peaks, mesa tops, springs, riverbeds, and prominent geological features. The Zunis use sacred sites to offer prayers to their ancestors to bring rain, fertility, and good things for themselves and all of the other people in the world. Pilgrimages are made to religious sites far from Zuni Pueblo and this maintains a spiritual relationship with the landscape the Zunis have inherited from their ancestors.
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For the last three hundred years, most of the Zunis had lived in a single village, the Pueblo of Zuni. Within the boundaries are smaller farming villages at Pescado, Nutria, and Ojo Caliente, which were established in the eighteenth century but which in more recent years have been occupied only during the time of planting and harvest. Beyond the boundaries of the reservation, there are ancient sites and areas, sacred points and shrines, and places of pilgrimage central to Zuni life and history.
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By about A.D. 1450, a series of communities was established in the lower Zuni River valley that continued to be occupied into the historic period. These developments were accompanied by a relinquishment of habitation in other areas in the drainage of the Upper Little Colorado River. By the end of the prehistoric era, a Zuni settlement system had emerged that entailed the occupation of a few, very large villages in a core area of habitation that contained the best agricultural land in the region. This core area of settlement was surrounded by a much larger uninhabited region used for resource procurement. A similar development of settlement patterns occurred in the neighboring Acoma and Hopi areas, and by the onset of the historic period the only occupied villages in the Western Pueblo region were the Zuni, Acoma, and Hopi pueblos.
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There is an epidemic of kidney disease among the Zuni Indians. In collaboration with health care providers and research institutions, the Zuni Pueblo established the Zuni Kidney Project to reduce the burden of kidney disease.
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