Tewa
Americannoun
plural
Tewas,plural
Tewa-
a member of a cluster of pueblo-dwelling North American Indian peoples of New Mexico and Arizona.
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the Tanoan language of the Tewa.
Example Sentences
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Travelers heading north from Santa Fe pass under multiple bridges with references to Pojoaque Pueblo in the community’s native language of Tewa.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2023
The early Native American inhabitants of the area, a Puebloan people who spoke the Tewa language, also believed the dirt was medicinal.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023
The zoo released a video saying Tewa was being introduced to the other alligators and will live out her life at the facility.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2023
And she painted the exterior with a black-on-black, gloss-and-matte geometric design and named the car Maria in homage to the celebrated Tewa potter Maria Martinez of the San Ildefonso Pueblo, who died in 1980.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2022
The village of Hano, or Tewa, is intrusive and does not properly belong to the Tusayan stock, as appears from their own traditions.
From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart
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