Tewa
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Tewas,
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Tewa
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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.
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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
Chavez Lamar is member of the San Felipe Pueblo in New Mexico, and her ancestry includes Hopi, Tewa and Navajo.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022
“Do you remember,” said he, when he had finished, “hearing Eiulo, in talking of affairs at Tewa, make mention of a person named Atollo?”
From The Island Home by Dalziel
It is an interesting fact that all Tewas speak Hopi as well as Tewa, whereas the Hopi have never learned the Tewa language.
From The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockett
The two peoples have intermarried freely, and it is hard to think of the Tewas otherwise than as "one kind of Hopi."
From The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockett
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