Zuni

The Zuni are a Pueblo people of western New Mexico, descended from the Mogollon and Ancestral Pueblo cultures and living by irrigated farming. Their language is an isolate with no known relationship to any other Native American language.

In 1539 the Spanish expedition of Fray Marcos de Niza sent the slave Estevanico ahead, and the Zuni killed him as a spy. Before the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 they lived in six villages, and in the revolt they took refuge atop the mesa of Dowa Yalanne until 1692. Of their three Spanish missions only Halona was rebuilt after the reconquest, and by the late eighteenth century the Spanish had given up hope of dominating them.