Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1878 — The Zuni Indians. [ARTICLE]

The Zuni Indians.

An Arizona correspondent writes: The Zuni Indians are located in New Mexico, a few miles east of the Arizona line. They are an industrious, economical people; are kind and hospitable to strangers, live almost wholly within themselves, raise cattle and sheep, weave blankets and cloth for their own clothing. They live in four-story buildings, the entrances being in the top story, which they enter by means of ladders which they take up after them at night, and then consider themselves secure from enemies without, and, so far as the rude implements of war the Indians use are concerned, are undoubtedly correct. These Indians have no traditions of the past that connect them with the ancient people who once densely populated this Territory, but from their mode of living, the architecture of their building, etc., they are undoubtedly the last remnant of that great people who had large towns and cities and who carried on extensive agricultural enterprises.