The Zunis, speaking a proper language, was a tribe of Indians of America once appropriated in the New southern Mexico. They were agriculturists seminomadi. They were the first Pueblo met by the Spaniards. Fray Marcos de Niza saw the village Zuni from far. The clear brick walls shone as gold in the sun of the evening and him I return ' to report to the Spanish viceroy of City of Mexico that had found the fabulous Seven Cities of Cibola, whose roads were flagged of gold. as a result, Don Francisco de Colorado, with a big platoon of adventurers gifted of heavy weapons, appeared in 1540 in Hawikuh and the 7 July of that year he/she took of assault and looting the pueblo. When you/they were regained by the Spaniards in 1692, twelve years after the turned Pueblo, the Zunis ran away in one of their fortresses on the top of a tall inaccessible mesa. With the time they built an only village on the site of their ancient pueblo of Halona and since then they have lived there. Today around 5.000 Zunis they live in theirs it reserves of 40.000 acrid to around 30 miles to south of Gallup, in the New Mexico.
