Tewa people
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thumb|upright=1.25|Chaiwa, a Tewa girl with a butterfly whorl hairstyle, photographed by Edward S. Curtis in 1922 thumb|Tewa girls, 1922, photographed by Edward S. Curtis thumb|A Southern Tewa (Tano) anthropomorphic figure with rattle, petroglyph in the [[Galisteo Basin, a major Tano homeland prior to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680]] The Tewa 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
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thumb|upright=1.25|Chaiwa, a Tewa girl with a butterfly whorl hairstyle, photographed by Edward S. Curtis in 1922 thumb|Tewa girls, 1922, photographed by Edward S. Curtis thumb|A Southern Tewa (Tano) anthropomorphic figure with rattle, petroglyph in the [[Galisteo Basin, a major Tano homeland prior to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680]] The Tewa 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 Santa Clara Pueblo Tesuque Pueblo
The Hopi 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. Other Hopi clans are known to be descendants of Tewa people.
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