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Acoma

Region
American West

Definition 
An Indian tribe of New Mexico and Arizona, the name meaning "people of the white rock" in their language, in reference to the pueblos in which they lived. Acoma is also the name of a central New Mexico pueblo that has been called "the oldest continuously inhabited city in the United States." The name is pronounced either eh-ko-ma or ah-ko-ma.

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