Zuni Essays

  • Zuni Indian Mythology

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    Hundreds of years ago the Zuni people created and told stories of human and world creations, tales of love and lust, and just about anything "that gave people an explanation for something they could not understand" (Gaarder 25). They made up all these legends or myths before there was anything called science. The stories came from the heart and soul of these native people. Legends are not just silly stories that were told for amusement they are like magic lenses, they allow us to have a glimpse of

  • The Zuni Indians

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    The Zuni Indians were and are a group of Indians in the southwest area of the United States and Northern Mexico. It seems that they have lived in this area for nearly 4000 years, and maybe more if their ancestry can be traced as they seem to believe to the Mogollon group of Native Americans who grew out of the first prehistoric inhabitants of that area of America. The name Mogollon comes from the Mogollon mountain range named by the first Spanish explorers in the early 1500’s such as Coronado

  • The Mythology of the Zuni and the Noongar

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    The Zuni (known as A:shiwi) are a nationally recognised Native American tribe. They belong to the group of Pueblo peoples. Zuni is thirty four miles south of town, New Mexico. additionally to the reservation, the tribe owns trust lands in Catron County, Land of Enchantment and Apache County, Arizona. The Zuni people have lived within the southwest for thousands of years. Their cultural and spiritual traditions are unmoving, in massive half, within the people's deep and shut ties to the mountains

  • History Of Hopi Indian Potters

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    History Of Hopi Indian Potters Contact zones were described in Mary Louise Pratt’s article "Arts of the Contact Zone" as being those points in time in which different cultural groups came together. Positive influences between the groups lead to knowledge and understanding, whereas negative influences lead to conflict and miscomprehension. The history of the Hopi Indians is intertwined with the various contact zones between the Hopi Indians and other cultural groups. It is this series of contact

  • The Zuni Indians Live, Today

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    The Zuñi Indians live, today, on the Zuñi Reservation in west-central New Mexico. They occupying the north bank of the upper Zuni river valley of western New Mexico and Eastern Arizona since at least 700 A.D. (Theodore Frisbie; Encyclopedia), Resisters, is the best word to describe the Zuni people. They resisted acculturation. They resisted change to their ceremonial cycle. They are a complex people. They have survived because they have resisted (Arizona Rocks Tours), and unlike many other Native

  • Trandcendentalism in Zuni and Sioux Tribe

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    ‘civilization’ in the New World, the Zuni Tribe located in the Southwest, idolized women. When looking back at their family tress, the women are mentioned. Women in this tribe also go to pick whom they marry, and the husband had to move in with the wife’s family so her father, brothers, uncles, and cousins could protect her. The women also owned the property because if there were conflict between her and her spouse, she would not be left in the dark with nothing. The Zuni were not the only tribe who put

  • Dennis Tedlock: An American Indian View Of Death

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    complicated idea of death in adherence to traditional Zuni belief. According to the Catholic religion, the afterlife has basic two options: heaven or hell. While purgatory is a stage in the afterlife, it is a step closer towards heaven. This is a deep contrast to the ideas of the Kachin Village, “raw” vs “cooked” realms, and reincarnation that the Zuni people believed in. Were the two contrasting ideas of death a possible reason for the Zuni people not fully accepting and connecting to Catholicism

  • Summary Of How The Coyote Joined The Dance Of The Burrowing Owl

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    functionalist method of analysis can be applied to the Zuñi Indians, their culture, and their myths. “How the Coyote Joined the Dance of the Burrowing Owls” can be analyzed by utilizing the framework behind Zuñi power dynamics, specifically about clan and kinship regarding ritualistic customs

  • Ruth Benedict

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    Ruth Benedict Ruth Benedict’s anthropological book, Patterns of Culture explores the dualism of culture and personality. Benedict studies different cultures such as the Zuni tribe and the Dobu Indians. Each culture she finds is so different and distinctive in relation to the norm of our society. Each difference is what makes it unique. Benedict compares the likenesses of culture and individuality, “A culture, like an individual, is a more or less consistent pattern of thought or action” (46),

  • Looma Healthy Lifestyle Program

    1583 Words  | 4 Pages

    diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease in the Aboriginal community of north-west of Australia and it compares the results with The Zuni Diabetes Prevention Program which engaged in a community-based educational plan to reduce health diabetes in North America. The Looma Aboriginal community, in the remote Kimberley region of north-west Australia and the Zuni Indians community in North America, has few facts in common. Both have been victims of colonisation, and they have become a minority relative

  • Francisco Vasquez De Coronado Research Paper

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    Early Life Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was born in Salamanca, Spain, around 1510. His parents are Juan Vasquez de Coronado y Sosa de Ulloa and Isabel de Lujan. His father was a wealthy aristocrat, but the family fortune was promised to his older brother. Francisco was determined to make his own fortune in the New World. This is what made him an explorer. Francisco traveled to New Spain in 1535. He got a job working for the government. Within three years of his arrival, he had put down a slave

  • The Hopi Myth: A Comparative Analysis

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    Contrary to the Zuni myth, however, as stated in Introduction to Mythology, the Hopi myth “postulates the creation of the First World by Tawa, the Sun Spirit, who regretted the emptiness” (98). This version emulates the reverence between creator and creation, as both see the relevance of the other. Tawa creates the people for company, making them, if not equal in a way, then at least important. They have a purpose. Thus, from both the Hopi and Zuni myths, one can see that the creators

  • Ruth Benedict's Theory Of Cultural Relativism

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    These cultures are the Zuñi Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, the Dobu tribe of New Guinea, and the Kwakiutl Indians of the Pacific Northwest. All three of these societies have different cultural fabrics. Benedict produces the assumption that the structures within these cultures

  • Kiwi Corporation Case Study

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    Tax--Federal Tax Editorial Content--Standard Federal Tax Reporter (2014), to research the following laws: Section 331(a), 336(a), and 6901(a). We also used the Citator in CCH to review the facts and decisions shown in the liquidation cases of Kennemer and Al Zuni of Arizona.

  • Santa Fe Anthropology

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    Though we were not able to see Walpi Village at Hopi or any of the Zuni pueblo, we did learn about how the Hopi and Zuni are able to farm even though their geographical locations are not near water. Due to an extensive trial and error process in ancestral times, the Hopis and Zunis became expert farmers in their locations by planting their crops deeper into the sand so that the roots can reach the water that collects on the

  • Stand By Me Analysis

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    minutes into the video, a plane is seen ascending as if it were letting the viewer know that a journey across the world was about to begin. Clarence Bekker from Amsterdam, Netherlands begins the next verse. Shortly after the Twin Eagle Drum Group from Zuni, New Mexico, along with other vocalists and musicians across the world join

  • Essay On American Indians Mathematics

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    Abstract: This paper gives an insight into the Mathematics used by the American Indians. The history of American Indians and how they incorporated mathematics into their lives is scarce. However from the information retrieved by Archeologists, we have an idea of the type of mathematics that was used by American Indians. Introduction When the history of American Indians come into mind, our minds tend to ponder on teepees, dances around the fire, feathers, and the stereotypical Pocahontas-like

  • The Four Day Kinaalda

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    The Navajo Times on the 7th of July 2011 had information, that there were 300,048 people who declared themselves as Navajo (Mislav. 12. Web). Some people get mixed up with Navajo, Zuni, Sioux and many more tribes because we are in one category. Most people call us Native Americans, but we are individually called Navajo, Zuni, Sioux, and my more. Many tribes have their own way of doing a puberty ceremony because not all tribes are the

  • Persuasive Essay On Why You Must Have Burgers

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    Must Have Burgers In the U.S. there are burgers which you must have if you are to call yourself a hamburger gourmet. We are not talking about burgers which you just slap together and throw on the grill. We are talking about a sort of food revolution and just from their descriptions I want to reach out and grab a hold of one or two burgers at least. These are the burgers that everyone can’t get enough of and they always come back for more. I have given you some examples but there are a total of 26

  • Character Analysis Of John The Savage

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    We see that whenever John the Savage is in distress he uses Zuni or Shakespearian language to express himself: “Ai yaa tákwa! It was only in Zuñi that the Savage could adequately express what he felt…” (Huxley 173). He sees this as another way to show his defiance from the rulers of the New World State. As an outsider John takes his moral and values from