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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a member of the Pueblo people living in western New Mexico

Merriam Webster's

also Zuņi noun (plural Zuni or Zunis; also Zuņi or Zuņis) Etymology: American Spanish Zuņi Date: 1834 1. a member of an American Indian people of western New Mexico 2. the language of the Zuni people

Britannica Concise

Pueblo Indian people of W central New Mexico. Their origin and early history are uncertain. When first encountered by 16th-cent. Spanish explorers, they were living in seven separate towns (the fabled Seven Cities of Cí bola); under the Spaniards they were crowded into a single pueblo. The traditional occupation was corn farming; basketry and pottery were also well developed. Religious life centered on gods or spirits called kachinas. Today the Zuni number about 6,000.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.