Tewa

American  

[tey-wuh, tee-] / ˈteɪ wə, ˈti- /

noun

• Tewas,
  plural
• Tewa
  plural

1. a member of a cluster of pueblo-dwelling North American Indian peoples of New Mexico and Arizona.

2. the Tanoan language of the Tewa.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Tewa
  plural
• Tewas
  plural

Example Sentences

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Tewa Tewas

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

This was later commuted to life imprisonment, and he remains in Mombasa's high-security Shimo La Tewa GK Prison.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2022

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

A small segment of Hopis who live in a community at the base of First Mesa speak Tewa, a language more common heard among pueblo tribes along the Rio Grande in New Mexico.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

Eiulo had heard both his father and Wakatta speak of the island as a singularly beautiful spot, nearly as large as Tewa, and abounding in bread-fruit and cocoa-nut trees.

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 Lockett, Hattie Greene

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 Lockett, Hattie Greene