In Cree, the term for a man who took the role of a woman was ayekkwew ; the Zuni word for a woman who took the role of a man was katsotse ( boy-girl ), and the Mohave give women the term hwame.

The first visit to Casa Malpais by a professional anthropologist was in 1883, when Frank Cushing, an anthropologist living at Zuni, visited a site at " El Valle Redondo on the Colorado Chiquito ", and was impressed by what he termed " the fissure type pueblo " he found there.

Ramah was originally settled by Mormon pioneers for the purpose of missionary work to be carried out within the Zuni and Navajo communities.

Ruth Benedict, in studying the Zuni, found that the practice of child abandonment was unknown, but featured heavily in their folktales.

This device was tested in the Zuni shot of Operation Redwing.

The " village of the great kiva " near the contemporary Zuni Pueblo was built in the 11th century CE.

The Zuni region, however, was probably only sparsely populated by small agricultural settlements until the 12th century when the population and the size of the settlements began to increase.

A controversy during the early 2000s was associated with Zuni opposition to the development of a coal mine near the Zuni Salt Lake, a site considered sacred by the Zuni and under Zuni control.

He was killed at the Zuni village of Hawikuh in present-day New Mexico.

) After some initial difficulties ( the Zuni seriously considered killing him as he was obviously after their secrets ) he was accepted by the community, adopted by the Governor of the Pueblo and participated in Zuni activities.

Logan, in his position as U. S. Senator, threatened the Bureau of American Ethnology director John Wesley Powell with funding cuts if Cushing's stay in Zuni was not terminated.

Zuni Mountains were the locations of digging according to the legend, but the film was shot mainly at Glen Canyon of Utah and Canyon de Chelly of Arizona, specifically Spider Rock.

The most widely accepted origin theory suggests Apache was borrowed and transliterated from the Zuni word meaning " Navajos " ( the plural of " Navajo ").

Some taboos were a regional phenomena, such as of eating fish, which was taboo throughout the southwest ( e. g. in certain Pueblo cultures like the Hopi and Zuni ) and considered to be snake-like ( an evil animal ) in physical appearance.

Participant observation was used extensively by Frank Hamilton Cushing in his study of the Zuni Indians in the later part of the nineteenth century, followed by the studies of non-Western societies by people such as Bronisław Malinowski, E. E.

" The Navaho say that their forefathers were taught to play web weaving games by the Spider People, while the Zuni declare ... that the game was given to them by Grandmother Spider.

This was a significant contributor to the 1967 fire disaster aboard the, when such a fire ( set off by an inadvertently fired Zuni rocket's striking the fuel tanks of a waiting A-4 Skyhawk ) detonated two iron bombs of Korean War vintage which had been loaded onto the stricken bomber, rupturing the fuel tanks of adjacent aircraft and setting off a chain reaction of similarly cooked off bombs.

Many tribes, such as the Zuni, also associate Kokopelli with the rains.

The name " Kokopelli " may be a combination of " Koko ", another Hopi and Zuni deity, and " pelli ", the Hopi and Zuni word for the desert robber fly, an insect with a prominent proboscis and a rounded back, which is also noted for its zealous sexual proclivities.

Coachella is also home to a significant Southwest Indian ( Apache, Hopi, Navajo and Zuni ) population, though not indigenous to the California desert region.

Zuni Pueblo ( Zuni: Shiwinna, also Zuñi Pueblo and Pueblo de Zuñi ) is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States.

He also later published two Zuni songs.

The mine would have extracted water from the aquifer below the lake and would also have involved construction between the lake and the Zuni.

Subsequently Torrey published reports on the plants that were collected by John C. Frémont in the expedition to the Rocky Mountains ( 1845 ), those gathered by Major William H. Emory on his reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to San Diego, California ( 1848 ), the specimens secured by Captain Howard Stansbury on his expedition to the Great Salt Lake of Utah ( 1852 ), the plants collected by John C. Frémont in California ( 1853 ), those brought back from the Red River of Louisiana by Captain Randolph B. Marcy ( 1853 ), and the botany of Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves's expedition to the Zuni and Colorado Rivers ( 1854 ), also memoirs on the botany of the various expeditions for the purpose of determining the most practicable route for a Pacific Railroad ( 1855-1860 ).

Zuni prayer sticks were also made using eagle down.

Zuni ( also Zuñi ) is a language of the Zuni people, indigenous to western New Mexico and eastern Arizona in the United States.

She starred in USA network's Trilogy of Terror II in which she battled the infamous Zuni doll. Lysette also played Rowena in the 1982 TV film Ivanhoe, with actors James Mason, Sam Neill and Anthony Andrews.

Mount Taylor is also sacred to the Acoma, Laguna and Zuni people.

A few of the other rockets and missiles developed or tested at China Lake have included the Mighty Mouse, Zuni, Sidewinder, Shrike, Joint Stand-Off Weapon ( JSOW ) and Joint Direct Attack Munition ( JDAM ).

Zuni was included with reservations under Aztec-Tanoan within Edward Sapir's heuristic 1929 classification ( without supporting evidence ).

Other scholars analyzed uses of plants under an indigenous / local perspective in the 20th century: e. g. Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Zuni plants ( 1915 ); Frank Cushing, Zuni foods ( 1920 ); Keewaydinoquay Peschel, Anishinaabe fungi ( 1998 ), and the team approach of Wilfred Robbins, JP Harrington, and Barbara Freire-Marreco, Tewa pueblo plants ( 1916 ).

Note: Some linguists link the Penutian hypothesis to the Zuni language.

* Erigeron rhizomatus – Zuni Fleabane

The studies showed a correlation between the availability of color terms for specific colors and the ease with which those colors were remembered in both speakers of Zuni and English.

* Zuni Salt Lake and Sanctuary-The Pueblo people of the Southwest have made annual pilgrimages to Zuñi Salt Lake to harvest salt, for both culinary and ceremonial purposes for thousands of years.

Another thread in his work has been the influence, both rhythmic and melodic, of Native American music, particularly that of the Hopi, Zuni, and other Southwest Pueblo tribes.

* Judy Rodgers and Gilbert Pilgram, the two chef-owners of Zuni Cafe in San Francisco, California, are both alumni of Chez Panisse.

* Frank Hamilton Cushing, Zuni Folk Tales, hardcover, ISBN 1-125-91410-6 ( expensive if you search by ISBN, try ABE for older used copies without < nowiki > ISBN </ nowiki >)

Zuni Pueblo is located at ( 35. 069327 ,-108. 846716 ).

The Zuni Indians call it " A ' ts ' ina " ( Place of writings on the rock ).

Edmund Ladd reported in 1994 that Zuni is still the main language of communication in the pueblo and is used in the home ( Newman 1996 ).

Zuni is considered a language isolate ( i. e., unrelated to any other known language ).

Later discussions of the Aztec-Tanoan hypothesis usually excluded Zuni ( Foster 1996 ).

Finding the Center: The Art of the Zuni Storyteller ( Second Edition ).