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The early Native American inhabitants of the area, a Puebloan people who spoke the Tewa language, also believed the dirt was medicinal.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023

The zoo released a video saying Tewa was being introduced to the other alligators and will live out her life at the facility.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2023

The Village of Tewa now is overseeing the park and eventually will have security guards to patrol the area.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022

And she painted the exterior with a black-on-black, gloss-and-matte geometric design and named the car Maria in homage to the celebrated Tewa potter Maria Martinez of the San Ildefonso Pueblo, who died in 1980.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2022

The Tewa, represented by Polaka and Jakwaina, took the lead in this movement.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter