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Keres|ˈkeɪreɪs|
Also Queres.
[American Indian.]
a. A Pueblo Indian people inhabiting parts of New Mexico.
b. The language of the Keres, forming the Keresan group. Also attrib. or as adj.
1893T. Donaldson Moqui Pueblo Indians 91 The Queres group (Keresan stock) are the Pueblos of Santa Ana, San Felipe, Cochiti, San Domingo, Acoma, Zia, and Laguna. 1925Amer. Indian Life 397 The Pueblo Indians..number about 10,000. They are usually classified according to language into four or five stocks, the Hopi of Arizona, the Ashiwi or people of Zuñi, the Keres of Acoma and Laguna to the west and, to the east, of five towns on the Rio Grande, and, also in the east, the Tanoans including the Tewa and the people of Jemez. 1957Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 753/2 At the discovery in 1540 the Hopi, Zuñi and Keres may have been twice..as numerous as to-day. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 99 Hokan-Siouan in Sapir's arrangement includes six major units... The six units are:..Keres (Powell's Keresan)..and an ‘Eastern Group’. |