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Bibliography of the Zuni Language
The Zuni, or Shiwi language, is
now generally considered a language isolate. The Encyclopedia Britannica categorizes it as a Penutian language, and Bertha
Dutton once posed the hypothetical that according to the Swadesh list,
"If the Zuni language is a member of the Penutian language family, then it
is a distant relative of the Tanoan languages
(Tewi). The Penutian hypothesis
was advanced by Alfred
Kroeber and Roland B. Dixon, and later refined by Edward Sapir, and was an
attempt to reduce the number of unrelated language families in a culturally
diverse area that was centered in California's central coast. While this theory was plausible for some of the languages, the problem of verification of this theory was that to find any evidence of any cognates between the California languages and Zuni, one would possibly have to trace the languages' lineage by as much as 3000-5000 years or more. Listed below is a bibliography of
books and articles concerned with the Zuni language. Some of these items deal
with syntax and semantics, as does Zuni
Curtis D. Cook's article. Others, such
as Ruth Bunzel's Pueblo Pottery and Jane M. Young's book on Rock Art, may seem out of place on this list, but are important in the study of pragmatics and the Zuni World View
as it corresponds with the Zuni language. The Zuni worldview may properly be considered as a study in orthology. The form and function of design images and pictographic rock art images and
their interpretation according to Zuni mythology
or cosmology sufficed as
a form of communication prior to the appearance of a written language. The Zuni Enigma, by Nancy Yaw Davis offers a comparative of cognates between the Zuni language and
another language isolate; the Japanese language. While speculative, it demonstrates a likeness between the Zuni and Japanese languages that
is more compelling than that of the Penutian Hypothesis. The article by Dell Hymes offers information on California languages where one can form a comparative
of certain Zuni words to the languages of California, e.g. Wintu, Maidu, Miwok, and may have relevance to studies of the Pueblo Peoples, the Pecos Classification, Hohokam.
The importance of the books on and by Frank Hamilton Cushing goes without saying. He was the first anthropologist to undertake studies
by means of the method of participant observation, and was a member of the Priesthood of the Bow. Of special interest in regard to the Zuni language
is his correspondences edited by Jesse Green, and their relevance to the Zuni language as it reflects their world view. Any suggested additions to this
list can be submitted to zunifetish@prophetsrock.com
and are welcome.
Bunzel,
Ruth L. The Pueblo Potter: A Study of
Creative Imagination in Primitive Art. New York: Dover, 1929
Bunzel,
Ruth L. Introduction to Zuni Ceremonialism. Intro. by Nancy Pareto. University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Bunzel,
Ruth L. Zuni Texts. Publications of the
American Ethnological Society, 15. New York: G.E. Steckert & Co., 1933.
Cook,
Curtis D. "Nucleus and Margin of Zuni Clause Types." Linguistics. 13: 5-37, 1975.
Davis,
Nancy Yaw. The Zuni Enigma. Norton, 2000.
Dutton,
Bertha P. American Indians of the
Southwest. Albuquerque: University
of New Mexico Press, 1983.
Green,
Jesse, ed. Zuni: Selected Writings
of Frank Hamilton Cushing. Lincoln
and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.
Green, Jesse.
Cushing at Zuni: The Correspondence and Journals of Frank Hamilton Cushing,
1879-1884. Albuquerque: University
of New Mexico Press, 1990.
Hickerson,
Nancy P. "Two Studies of Color:
Implications for Cross-Cultural Comparability of Semantic Categories". In Linguistics and Anthropology: In honor
of C.F. Voegelin. Pp. 317-330. Ed.
By M. Dale Kinkade, Kenneth Hale, and Oswald Werner. The Peter De Ridder Press, 1975.
Hieb,
Louis A. "Meaning and Mismeaning: Toward an Understanding of the Ritual
Clowns". New Perspectives on the
Pueblos. Ed. by Alfonso Ortiz. Pp. 163-195. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1972.
Hymes,
Dell H. "Some Penutian Elements and the Penutian Hypothesis". Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 13:69-87, 1957.
Miner,
Kenneth L. "Noun Stripping and Loose Incorporation in Zuni". International Journal of American
Linguistics. 52: 242-254, 1986.
Newman,
Stanley. "Vocabulary Levels: Zuni Sacred and Slang Usage."Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 11: 345-354, 1955.
Newman,
Stanley. Zuni Dictionary. Indiana
University Research Center Publication Six. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1958.
Newman,
Stanley. "The Zuni Verb 'To Be'"Foundations of Language, Supplemental Series. Vol. 1. Ed. by John W. Verhaar.,
The Humanities Press, 1967.
Stout,
Carol. "Problems of a Chomskyan
Analysis of Zuni Transitivity". International
Journal of American Linguistics. 39:
207-223, 1973.
Walker,
Willard. "Inflection and Taxonomic Structure
in Zuni". International Journal of
American Linguistics. 32(3):
217-227, 1966.
Walker
Willard. "Toward a Sound Pattern of the Zuni". International Journal of
American Linguistics. 38(4): 240-259, 1968.
Young,
M. Jane. Signs from the Ancestors:
Zuni Cultural Symbolism and Perceptions in Rock Art. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.
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We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers who came together for the
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The Northern California Indian Development Council has a web-based
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Photo Galleries: Three galleries of stunning photography with
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The NCIDC Song Gallery contains sound clips that are small segments of
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National Museum of the American Indian
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Nominations sought for American Indian Journalism Institute, June 5-24,
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fingers lends an air of mystery to a new exhibit of ancient and
little-known tribal art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
"Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand" is scheduled to be shown at The St. Louis Art Museum from
March 4 to May 30, 2005, and at the Smithsonian National Museum of
Natural History from early July to late September.
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Essay on the Zuni World View
Excerpt(Complete article is available in PDF)
Cushing also cited an incidence where he showed a pole that accompanies a theodolite to an old Zuni man and asked him what he thought the name of it was. In response the old man inquired as to the use of the item. After briefly describing the implementation of the device the old man provided a rather lengthy sentence-word that Cushing translated as "heights of the world progressively measuring stick". The next day Cushing took the pole to the extreme corner of the pueblo and began "to flourish it around" until a middle-aged man relented to curiosity and asked what it was. Cushing then provided the Zuni name he had learned the day before and the man promptly requested, "Can they actually tell how far up and down journeying the world is?" [105].
Indian band seeks to regain its birthright
By David Whitney
Wintu Indians
At War Against Dam, Tribe Turns to Old Ways
Petition in Support of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe
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Coyote and the Horned Toad - Navajo
Horned Toad was very busy in her cornfield, where the corn was just ripening. Coyote came to her and said, "Please give me some of your delicious corn."
"No," said Horned Toad.
Coyote asked her four times; then she picked some corn for him.
"Corn is very hard to raise," Horned Toad told him. "We have to hoe the weeds away from it and pick off the bugs and worms that want to eat it. We even have to water it during dry weather. I can't afford to give all my corn away."
Coyote kept begging. Horned Toad said he couldn't have any more. '
Then Coyote ran out into the field and-pulled off a big ear of corn, stripped the husks away and began eating the kernels.
Horned Toad grabbed one end of the ear, and, when he gulped it down. Coyote also gulped Horned Toad down inside him.
Since she wasn't there to scold him, he ate all the corn he could hold. Then he lay down in the shade. He felt very lazy, but when he heard birds flying down to eat the corn, he raised his head and shouted at them.
"Go away! Don't bother my corn," he shouted "Don't you know it takes work to raise corn? I have to hoe it and water it, and all that."
Down inside him. Horned Toad made some sort of noise.
Horned Toad was very angry with Coyote and wanted to do something to get even with him. As she lay inside Coyote's stomach, she called, "Hey, Cousin!"
Coyote jumped up and looked around to see who was calling. He saw nobody, and he lay down again. The second time he heard someone calling, he jumped up again and ran around the edge of the cornfield, looking for the person whose voice he had heard.
This happened four times. The fourth time that Horned Toad called, Coyote realized where the sound was coming from and he looked down at his stomach and asked, "Is that you making noises inside me?"
"Yes," replied Horned Toad. "I'm going to take a little walk down here and see what I can find."
Soon Coyote began to feel strange, and he told Horned Toad to lie down and be still. Instead, Horned Toad continued to walk around, and she tugged at different parts of Coyote's insides.
"What is this?" she asked. "And what is that?"
Each time she gave a little pull at an organ, she hurt Coyote. Once she touched Coyote's heart and asked, "What is this?"
She pulled at the heart, and Coyote shrieked in pain and yelled, "That's my heart."
Horned Toad climbed upward, and when she reached his throat she called, "Now I'm going to cut your throat, Coyote."
"What are you going to cut it with?" Coyote inquired. "I'm not very smart, but I know that you don't have a knife." "
Just then Coyote felt something sharp hacking at the inside of his throat, and he began begging Horned Toad not to kill him. The toad was using her sharp homes for cutting.
"Just come out of me," he promised, "and I'll help you raise your corn. I'll hoe the weeds in your garden and water the corn. I'll even bring you some firewood."
Horned Toad replied, "No," and she kept on hacking his throat. Coyote got worried and tried to think of something else that might change the horned toad's mind.
"I'm going to run very fast and make you fall out of my throat," he said. But just as he started to run Horned Toad finished cutting his throat.
When he fell dead. Horned Toad crawled out of Coyote's mouth.
She stood there looking at poor Coyote, lying dead.
"I warned you not to bother my corn," she said. And she went about caring for her cornfield.
Taken from Coyote Stories of the Navajo People, Navajo Curriculum Center Press, 1974 School Board, Inc. Rough Rock Arizona.
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