Tewa Pueblos

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The Tewa are a pueblo dwelling people living in seven distinct communities in the southwestern United States primarily in the states of New Mexico and Arizona. Tewa homes are built in clusters around central plazas where ceremonial activities take place. The Tewa were basically horticulturalists who developed hydraulic irrigation to water their principal crops of maize, beans, and squash. These crops were supplemented by hunting and gathering. Kinship groups were based on moieties and matrilineal clans.

Identifier

Region

• North America

Subregion

• Southwest and Basin

Subsistence Type

• intensive agriculturalists

Samples

• EA

Countries

• United States

External Links

• San Ildefonso (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE
• Ohkay Owingeh (Western North American Indian database) D-PLACE
• San Ildefonso (Western North American Indian database) D-PLACE
• Nambé Pueblo (Western North American Indian database) D-PLACE