Cibola

"One of the sources misheard the Indian name 'Cibola' as a Spanish word for 'onion,' and I thought it was funny," said Verily.

Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

Moreover, the name Cibola implies the buffalo country.

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849

In the mid-1530s, adventurers returned from Indian imprisonment in the Sonoran Desert—present-day New Mexico and Arizona—laden with news of a land called Cibola, where stood seven magnificent cities in which according to the yarn one traveler spun for his relatives “the women wore strands of gold and the men golden waistbands” and the palace walls were encrusted with emeralds.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

In the mid-1530s, adventurers returned from Indian imprisonment in the Sonoran Desert—present-day New Mexico and Arizona—laden with news of a land called Cibola, where stood seven magnificent cities in which according to the yarn one traveler spun for his relatives “the women wore strands of gold and the men golden waistbands” and the palace walls were encrusted with emeralds.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Cibola, and euery one of them haue their particular name: and none of them is called Cibola, but altogether they are called Cibola.

Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885

Cibola, and every one of them have their particular name, and none of them is called Cibola, but all together they are called Cibola.

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849

Sonoran Desert - present-day New Mexico and Arizona - laden with news of a land called Cibola, where stood seven magnificent cities in which (according to the yarn one traveler spun for his relatives) "the women wore strands of gold and the men golden waistbands" and the palace walls were encrusted with emeralds.

NPR Topics: News 2010

Sonoran Desert - present-day New Mexico and Arizona - laden with news of a land called Cibola, where stood seven magnificent cities in which (according to the yarn one traveler spun for his relatives) "the women wore strands of gold and the men golden waistbands" and the palace walls were encrusted with emeralds.

NPR Topics: News 2010

Sonoran Desert - present-day New Mexico and Arizona - laden with news of a land called Cibola, where stood seven magnificent cities in which (according to the yarn one traveler spun for his relatives) "the women wore strands of gold and the men golden waistbands" and the palace walls were encrusted with emeralds.

NPR Topics: News 2010

The first of the pueblo groups touched was what is now called Zuñi, which had become known to the Spaniards through Father Marcos of Nizza the year previous under the name of "Cibola".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913