Tag: Zuni

For thousands of years, American Indian people in the Southwest farmed the land and built their villages, called pueblos by Spanish, with multi-story houses, plazas, and underground ceremonial chambers known as kivas. While the Pueblos are usually lumped together in both the anthropological and historical writings as though they are a single cultural group, they … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) In 1882 a Washington, D.C. newspaper reported: “Society has had recently a notable addition in the shape of an Indian princess of the Zuni tribe.” While in Washington, We’Wha had an interview with President Grover Cleveland and led a charity ball organized by society women. What the newspaper and Washington … Continued