The Zuni People

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The Zuni People

• Native Americans
• New Mexico Region

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The Zuni People

• Ashiwi people live in the Southwest, primarily in
  New Mexico.

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History of the Zuni

• Zuni believe they came up to this earth from the
  underworld to a place identified as the Grand
  Canyon or the Mojave Desert.
• They wandered for many years and settled in the
  place they are now center or middle place.
• They developed large pueblos along the Zuni River.

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Zuni Pueblo
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Zuni Gardens
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Zuni Belief System

• The reciprocal gift-giving relationship between
  the Sun-Father and all creatures, including human
  beings.
• The Sun Father gives corn and breath. In return,
  the Zuni offer corn meal and downy feathers,
  symbolizing clouds and breath.

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Zuni Belief System

• Most powerful supernatural beings are
• Earth Mother
• Sun Father
• Moonlight-Giving Mother

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Zuni Belief System

• Six Directions Connecting Point in Middle
• North
• South
• East
• West
• Above
• Below

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Images of Zuni People
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Zuni World View

• Destiny
• Everyones life, and indeed the life of the
  community, can be imagined as a road. To pass
  another road is to acknowledge converging
  destinies.

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Zunis Four Religious Societies

• -etowe fetishes, each representing the spirit
  originating deep within the womb of the earth,
  which is the foundational force of society.

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Zunis Four Religious Societies

• Pekwin is the sun priest who keeps the ritual
  calendar.
• Bow Priests-govern warfare and regulate social
  behavior.

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Zunis Four Religious Societies

• War God Twins-assisted in the birth of the Zuni
  by bringing all these from the earths fourth
  womb onto the earths surface.
• Zuni People-the daylight people.

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Religious Practices

• Rain and prosperity are brought about because of
  the kachina dances and the Pueblo's prayers to
  the ancestors, but an individuals health and
  success may depend more on the intercession of
  his or her animal
• helpers.

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Zuni Heritage

• Today the population of the Zuni reservation
  exceeds 8,000.

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The Zuni People