Tewan.adj.
/ˈteɪwə/ A. n.
a. An Indian people of the south-western U.S.; a member of this people.
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b. The Tanoan language of this people.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to the Tewa or their language.
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1865 Rep. U.S. Bureau Indian Affairs 1864 191 The only reliable, genuine name ascertained is that of the dialect spoken by San Juan, Santa Clara, and others included in that class, which is the Tegua, pronounced Té-wa.
1896 Amer. Anthropologist 9 345 The Pueblo tribes..embody four linguistic stocks... The Tanoan stock is..composed of five dialectical divisions—Tano, Tewa, Jemez, and Piro.
1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians ii. 737/2 Tewa (‘moccasins’, their Keresan name). A group of Pueblo tribes belonging to the Tanoan linguistic family.
1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians ii. 737/2 In 1598 Juan de Oñate named 11 of the Tewa pueblos.
1910 Amer. Anthropologist 12 503 Tewa is rich in sentence-words.
1912 Amer. Anthropologist 14 472 The Tewa-speaking Indians occupy..five villages northwest of Santa Fé.
1914 W. H. Rivers Kinship & Social Organisation 53 The Tewa of Hano, a Pueblo tribe, call the father's sister's son tada.
1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory ix. 135 In the same category..belongs the Tewa Indian's diary kept at Dr. Elsie Clews Parsons' suggestion.
1959 E. Tunis Indians 115/1 The Hopi still occupy three high mesas in Arizona where they have six towns, plus a seventh occupied by a band of Tewa who have lived with the Hopi for two hundred years.
1980 Smithsonian Oct. 87 Tesuque, a smallish pueblo of some 200 souls, was considered one of the most restive of the six Tewa pueblos north and northwest of Santa Fe.
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