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Answer for the clue "Indian of N.M. ", 4 letters:
zuni

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
native people and language of New Mexico, 1834, from Spanish, from a local native word.

Usage examples of zuni.

What does it take to persuade a reader that you are showing him Zuni on a Shalako midnight?

Far to the east woodsmoke rises in front of Zuni Ridge without enough wind to smudge it.

My back is braced against the corner post of one of the sheep pens that line the north side of Zuni River.

Across it is the Holy Ground, fenced on three sides now by Zuni residences, where the Zuni clans made their last camp on their mythic search for the Middle Place of the World.

I have come because I am working on a novel, the climax of which takes place in Zuni Village on the night of Shalako.

Twin pillars were visible from here, in Zuni legend a brother and sister who had given their lives to save their people when a flood engulfed the world.

As we swung south, the Zuni Mountains ran along to our left, on the edge of the Continental Divide.

Where two summer-dwindled streams flowed together to make the Zuni River, the land wrinkled upward again and we flew above the Gates of Zuni, the notch that the water had cut.

But I did get a sense of strength, an idea that the Zuni soul would not easily surrender anywhere or anywhen.

He exchanged brief comments with Bronstein, who was in the forlorn, empty country south of Acoma Pueblo, and heading vaguely toward the Zuni Reservation.

They started their season up in Hopi country, with the snake dance at the end of summer, and they kept on going, down through Zuni and over here to the pueblos of the Rio Grande.

Christopher Columbus, but only the Hopi and Zuni kids would hold up their hands.

As a felony committed at Zuni, thus on a federal reservation, this was officially an FBI case.

The theory of the crime seems to be the Hopi took it when he did the Zuni robbery.

Window Rock house as the northern base of her endless research on the mythology of Navajo, Ute, Paiute, Zuni, Hopi, and any other tribes she could persuade to talk into her tape recorder.