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Their speech, Shoshonean, is related to tlie Ute, Paiute, 

 and Comanche, and probably less closely to the Pima 

 and ancient Mexican. The language of Zuni has no 

 traceable connection with any other known language. 

 Acoma, and certain of the villages in the Rio Grande 

 valley compose the Keresan linguistic stock. The 

 other villages, which comprise the Tanoan stock 

 originally had three dialects, one of which, the Piro, 



Petroglyphs, San Juan Valley. 

 (Courtesy of Dr. Prudden.) 



is now nearh^ extinct. The other two are known as the 

 Tewa and the Tiwa. The nomadic peoples, as has 

 been^stated above, belong to four linguistic stocks, the 

 Athapascan, the Piman, the Yum an, and the Sho- 

 shonean. The Athapascan tribes are so far removed 

 from the other tribes speaking related languages on 

 the ^ Pacific Coast northward from northern Cali- 

 fornia and in northern Canada, that a migration 



