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Frank Cashing was an American anthropologist. He was born in 1857. He was chosen curator of the Ethnological Department of the National Museum in 1876, and from 1879 until 1884 lived among the Zuni Indians, studying their language, habits and history, the results of which he published.
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Pueblo Indian is a generic name for a member of any of the farming groups of American Indians living in the south west USA and north Mexico, living in communal villages of flat-topped adobe or stone structures arranged in terraces. Surviving groups include the Hopi and the Zuni.
A decision of the Supreme Court in 1857 declared Pueblo Indians living in the Usa, primarily in New Mexico, to be citizens of the United States.
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The Zuni are a North American Indian people living in western New Mexico. They speak a Penutian language, Zuni.
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In Zuni mythology, Achiyalatopa is a celestial giant monster with feathers of flint knives.
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In Zuni mythology, Amitolane is the rainbow spirit.
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In Zuni mythology, Awonawilona was the divine Shehe from Whose being flowed forth the mists of increasing and the streams of growing.
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Zuni Pueblo is a CDP in McKinley County, New Mexico, USA.
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Zuni is a language spoken in the USA.
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