Tiwa people
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The Tiwa are group of related pueblo peoples in New Mexico and Texas. They traditionally spoke one of three Tiwa languages (although some speakers have switched to Spanish and/or English) and are divided into the two Northern Tiwa groups, Taos and Picuris, in Taos and Picuris, and the Southern Tiwa in Isleta, around what is now Albuquerque, and near El Paso.
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[edit] Name
Tiwa is the English name for the people. The Spanish wrote their name as Tigua, plural Tiguex. Anthropologists write the pueblo name for themselves as Ti'wan, pl Tiwesh', where ' is a glottal written ɦ in the International Phonetic Alphabet. Other names that have ben used for the Tiwa include: Tebas, Tihuas, and Chiguas[1]
[edit] History
The Tiwa are first mentioned by Coronado in 1541, and a pueblo (town) referred to by him as both Tigua and Tiguex was most likely Kuaua, but possibly Puaray. Coronado fought the Tiguex War against 12 of the southern Tiwa pueblos around what is now Albuquerque, which together with the diseases the Spanish brought, resulted in the abandonment of many of the villages.
In February 1583, the merchant Antonio de Espejo came up the Rio Grande to Tiguex (Kuaua), and Puaray (Espejo's own statement).
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[edit] References
- Cannon, Cornelia James (1931) Lazaro in the pueblos: the story of Antonio de Espejo's expedition into New Mexico Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, OCLC 1965297
