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The Tewa (or Tano) are a linguistic group of Pueblo Native Americans who speak the Tewa language and share the Pueblo culture. Their homelands are on or near the Rio Grande in New Mexico north of Santa Fe. They comprise the following communities:
- Nambé Pueblo
- Pojoaque Pueblo
- San Ildefonso Pueblo
- Ohkay Owingeh (formerly known as San Juan Pueblo)
- Santa Clara Pueblo
- Tesuque Pueblo
The Arizona Tewa, descendants of those who fled the Second Pueblo Revolt of 1680-1692, live on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, mostly in Tewa Village and Polacca on the First Mesa.
Tewa (also known as Tano) is one of five Tanoan languages spoken by the Pueblo people of New Mexico. Though these five languages are closely related, speakers of one cannot fully understand speakers of another (similar to German and Dutch speakers). The six Tewa-speaking pueblos are Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa Clara, and Tesuque.
Usage examples of "tewa".
Asa people, formed a nucleus about which the Tewa village of Hano was constructed.
Cristobal was born about six months after Diego, the son of my husband Tomas and my Tewa maid.
He repeated himself in Tewa, and the children bent quickly to their work.
The men argued back and forth in Tewa, Popeh demanding, Cristobal answering.
Diego relieved the tedium of travel for his little sisters by taking turns holding them before him in the saddle, laughing and singing old songs, some of which were familiar to Maria from her own childhood, others of which were Tewa Indian songs, learned long ago from his Indian servants.
We sat in front of two middle-aged Pueblo Indian men who talked quietly together in a mixture of English and Tewa, a language that sounds like someone choking on a fishbone.
Our history tells us it was founded by the Hopi with the help of Tewa refugees fleeing from tribal wars.
Some Tewa still live here, but most of the pueblos are deserted and sealed.
Among the nineteen pueblos of New Mexico, there are three basic cultural divisions, Towa, Tewa and Tiwa.
One excellent and basic introduction to pueblo culture is: The Tewa World: Space, Time, Being and Becoming In A Pueblo Society.
No one wanted to say hello to an ugly Tewa girl walking down Palace Avenue.
The messengers did not succeed in persuading the Tewa to come and the embassy was sent three times more.
On the fourth visit the Tewa consented to come, as the Walpi had offered to divide their land and their waters with them, and set out for Tusayan, led by their own chief, the village being left in the care of his son.
Ute had driven the flocks up the steep mesa side, and when they saw the Tewa coming they killed all the sheep and piled the carcasses up for a defense, behind which they lay down.
These scouts went to the Moen-kopi, and on returning, the favorable story they told of the land they had seen determined the Tewa to go there.