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Zuni

Zunis \Zu"[~n]is\, n. pl.; sing. Zu[~n]i. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Pueblo Indians occupying a village in New Mexico, on the Zu[~n]i River.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Zuni

native people and language of New Mexico, 1834, from Spanish, from a local native word.

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Zuni

The Zuni people are a tribe of Pueblo Native Americans in the United States.

  • Zuni ethnobotany
  • Zuni language
  • Zuni mythology
  • Zuni music

Zuni may also refer to:

  • Zuni.vn, e-learning website which was founded by Vietnam Internet User Community Foundation (VNIF) and VNG Corporation.
  • Applebay Zuni, glider
  • Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico in the U.S., named after the Zuni people
  • Zuni Salt Lake, a salt lake about 60 miles south of the Zuni Pueblo
  • Zuni River, a sacred river to the Zuni people, flowing from New Mexico to Arizona in the U.S.
  • Zuni bluehead sucker, a fish native to that river
  • Zuni, Virginia, an unincorporated town in Virginia in the United States
  • Zuni Cafe, a San Francisco restaurant owned by former chefs of Chez Panisse
  • Zuni (rocket), a rocket developed for both air-to-air and air-to-ground operations
  • USS Zuni (ATF-95), a United States Navy warship named after the Zuni people
Zuni (rocket)

The Zuni is a unguided rocket deployed by the United States armed forces. The rocket was developed for both air-to-air and air-to-ground operations. It can be used to carry various types of warheads, including chaff for countermeasures. It is usually fired from the LAU-10 rocket pod holding four rockets.

Zuni (website)

Zuni.vn is an e-learning website which was founded by Vietnam Internet User Community Foundation (VNIF) and VNG Corporation. Zuni was launched on March 13, 2014. At that time, the website had approximately 60,000 users, 300 video lessons, 1700 sample tests of eight main subjects used for Vietnamese university entrance exam including Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English, Literacy, Biography, History, Geography.

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.