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A:Shiwi
Women balancing pots on their heads in an A:Shiwi ceremony in Gallup, New Mexico on July 21, 2016.
A:Shiwi
people
Also known as: Zuñi, Zuni
- Also called:
- ZuniorZuñi
Top Questions
Who are the A:Shiwi?
Who are the A:Shiwi?
How is A:Shiwi society organized?
How is A:Shiwi society organized?
What are traditional crafts of the A:Shiwi?
What are traditional crafts of the A:Shiwi?
A:Shiwi, Indigenous North American group in what is now west-central New Mexico, on the Arizona border. The A:Shiwi are a Pueblo people and speak Shiwi’ma, an isolate language in the Penutian language grouping. They are believed to be descendants of the prehistoric Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi). A:Shiwi traditions depict a past in which their ancestors emerged from underground and eventually settled at the tribe’s present location. When Pueblo groups first encountered Spanish colonizers in the 16th century, the A:Shiwi were living in Hawikuh and five or six other towns. Collectively these towns came to be called the Seven Cities of Cibola, ...(100 of 391 words)