Tewa Language

Thursday, 04 November 2021

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Tesla picks Nambé for first NM store

Albuquerque Journal 10 Sep 2021

“This truly represents a historic moment,” Nambé Pueblo Gov. Phillip Perez told a crowed gathered for the event Thursday. The pueblo location is critical ... Even so, Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth of Santa Fe and Sen ... He delivered some of his remarks in Tewa, a native language, as he welcomed visitors to the site along U.S. Highway 285 ... .

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Native leader blasts NM’s response to education lawsuit

Albuquerque Journal 23 Jul 2021

... hubs and investing in the preservation of native languages, among other action ... Derrick Lente, D-Sandia Pueblo, delivered some of his remarks in Tewa — a pueblo language — and expressed disappointment that the Tribal Remedy Framework hadn’t been enacted by the state.

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Justice Barbara Vigil steps down after 20 years on the bench

Albuquerque Journal 04 Jul 2021

New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice Barbara Vigil gives her State of the Judiciary address in 2015. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal) ... St ... She spoke only Spanish and these women would speak Tewa, but they would go in the kitchen and have coffee. They didn’t speak the same language but managed to trade and enjoy each other’s company ... Bill Richardson ... .

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Illuminating the path: The nation’s first Native dentist honored with lifetime achievement award

Albuquerque Journal 27 Jun 2021

George Blue Spruce Jr ... (A.T. Still University) ... “They didn’t speak, read or write in English, the language of the dominant culture.”. Blue Spruce said his parents were determined he didn’t face the same challenge, so his first language was English. While he can speak some of his parents’ pueblo languages of Tewa and Keres, he was never fluent in either.

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Wisdom scattered to the winds: If Native cultures are not preserved, it will be an ...

Albuquerque Journal 25 Jun 2021

When Michelle Tomlinson learned that a language can die, she was dismayed ... “These Indigenous languages need to be preserved somehow.” ... Tomlinson says that, without language, cultures and traditions can’t be passed on – which makes for an uncertain future ... They were taught the Tewa language as their first tongue and know the pure version of it.

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Wisdom scattered to the winds: If Native cultures are not preserved, it will be an unimaginable loss

Albuquerque Journal 25 Jun 2021

When Michelle Tomlinson learned that a language can die, she was dismayed ... “These Indigenous languages need to be preserved somehow.” ... They were taught the Tewa language as their first tongue and know the pure version of it. The documentary, Edge, brings awareness to the loss of Indigenous language.

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‘A monumental milestone’: Elizabeth Reese, Yunpoví, joins SLS as first Native American faculty member

Stanford Daily 30 Apr 2021

Elizabeth Reese, Yunpoví (Willow Flower in the Tewa language), was born on the Nambé Pueblo reservation, one of the oldest continually inhabited Indigenous communities in the U.S. that sits just north of Santa Fe, New Mexico and where she is tribally enrolled ... But when her parents decided to pursue Ph.D ... She never had a Native teacher ... in 2016 ... .

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New studies in indigenous languages

Phys Dot Org 18 Mar 2021

Like Bethel, he recorded songs, poetry, and other examples of Tewa language, which included new original works as well as traditional older ones ... Literacy in the Tewa and Hopi languages is on the rise and the communities recognize the need for language revitalization as a means of maintaining the culture as it moves forward.

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Beloved Pojoaque teacher dies from COVID-19

Marietta Daily Journal 28 Nov 2020

Nov. 28—They called her Miss Laura. It was a term of reverence and resonance, befitting the quiet power of what one person could teach a community. Laura Escalanti's wisdom was imparted in classrooms through the strength of the Tewa language, ... .

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2020 general election: NM Senate, District 9

Albuquerque Journal 20 Oct 2020

Early voting for the 2020 general election is underway through Oct. 31, and Election Day is Nov. 3 ... We share answers here. Answers were not edited, and were held to a strict word limit ... Placitas ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... Presently, I serve as a Field Representative for Congresswoman Deb Haaland and a volunteer coordinator for the Nanbé-Tewa Language Revitalization Program.

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Q&A;: Senate District 9 Candidate Brenda Grace Agoyothé McKenna

Albuquerque Journal 26 Sep 2020

I have also served as chair of the former Nambe Pueblo Gaming Enterprise Board; examiner for Quality New Mexico; public relations director for the League of Women Voters, Central New Mexico; and as co-coordinator for the Nanbé-Tewa Language Revitalization Program with the ...

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Op-Ed: New Mexicans push a Spanish conquistador off his pedestal

The Los Angeles Times 21 Jun 2020

In these troubled times, it was a moment of pure poetry. On Monday, a 19-year-old Pueblo Native American man named Than Tsídéh jumped up on a pedestal and started dancing ... Advertisement ... When Than Tsídéh, whose name means Sun Bird in the Tewa language, arrived at the Oñate monument, ready to protest, the statue of the Pueblos’ tormentor was gone ... Food.

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Statue of Spanish conqueror removed for safekeeping

Napa Valley Register 16 Jun 2020

A man named Thantsideh (sunbird in his native ...

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Man shot during protest over Spanish conqueror's statue

Decatur Daily 16 Jun 2020

A man named Thantsideh (sunbird in his native ...

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Man arrested in shooting during Albuquerque statue protest

Hickory Record 16 Jun 2020

A man named Thantsideh (sunbird in his native Tewa language) stands on the pedestal built for a statue of Juan de Oñate, as he argues wit fellow Hispanic residents of Northern New Mexico over the removal of the statue Monday, June 15, 2020, in Alcalde, N.M..