Tewa
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- proper noun
- /ˈteɪwə/
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Tewa
- 14 And in his analysis of an Arizona Tewa text, Paul V. Kroskrity suggests to his fellow anthropologists the importance of "the relationship of narrative texts to the sociocultural contexts in which they are performed and to the native criteria by which they are evaluated." 15
- Tewa Pueblo
- Tewa Indian
- Tewa Indians
Examples
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This is not the world that we know and rely on," said Kathy Sanchez, a member of the Tewa Pueblo, a tribe in New Mexico that is living with a legacy of pollution from uranium mining.
Blog text (6) -
The author of these words was Albert Yava, a Hopi Indian of part-Tewa ancestry, who produced an autobiography in the later twentieth century.
Academic text (1999) -
Andy came as often as he could, and by November, her story of a Tewa husband in the Pacific had collapsed.
Fiction book (1993) -
In the above quotation of a Tewa myth from Ortiz 1969, the typical sequential system is observed counterclockwise: north, west, south, east.
Academic text (1990) -
According to Gregory Cajete, Tewa educator, Indigenous peoples' knowledge centered around establishing and living out mutual relationships with the "forces and forms" in the natural world.
Academic text (2004) -
Swan would have been better served by quoting from Dozier's page 204, although he was specifically discussing a Tewa myth and the Rio Grande Pueblos: "The order in which the cardinal points are given in ritual observance is sic important."
Academic text (1990) -
In her research, she focused on the Tewa, a Native American people from the southwestern United States.
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The Tewa language has unique characteristics that reflect the culture of its speakers.
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Many Tewa children attend language classes to keep their Native American heritage alive.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tewa are a Native American people in the US Southwest, and the name Tewa comes from what they call themselves in their own language, so Tewa also names the language they speak.