Borrowed from Spanish Tegua, Tehua, from Tewa Téwa or Hopi Teewa.
Meanings
(collective, countable, in-plural, uncountable) An indigenous Pueblo people of New Mexico and Arizona.
(countable) An individual member of these people.
Rina Swentzell, was a Tewa from Santa Clara Pueblo (Swentzell 1990) conceived the Tewa universe as circular in the form of a pot capped by a basket. All the spaces recognized by Ortiz (1969) fill the space inside the pot. 2026 June 12 (last accessed), Richard I. Ford, Jason Shapiro, “The Sacred Environment of Arroyo Hondo”, in Arroyo Hondo Pueblo Project, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025: