Vision

Inspiration

Tewa Women United (TWU) started as a gathering of women from the Northern New Mexico Pueblos, who believed in the inherent power of Tewa women and who felt the need to enhance their strengths through a circle of trust, love, hope, forgiveness and sharing.

 

Growth & Spirituality
TWU believes our true traditional past practiced no
separation of intellect and intuition - the head from the heart, nor the separation of the people from their spirituality. In order to nurture the harmony of all life with oneness of spirit in the relationship of natural law, we must nurture the future generations through our traditional way of spiritual living.

 

Community Mission

  • To provide peer support and networking with other Indigenous and Non-Indigenous women to give voice to our needs/concerns and to work for resolve

  • To assist with life's journey in transitions

  • To bring a positive management model to understanding acculturation stresses of our dual cultural self

  • To reduce and prevent alcohol and drug abuse, negative codependency, sexual violence and other social problems

  • To reinforce the teaching that traditional living means living spiritually attune to the multiple dimensions of the Breath of Life

  • To revitalize the active daily usage of our native languages

  • To promote and support activities which nurture and care for the well being of our Mother Earth, including being free of all nuclear contamination
     

Guiding Principles

 

Through experiencing of ancestral ways,
We, TEWA WOMEN UNITED will strive:
To nourish beingness of our pulsating Earth

 

...MOTHER OF ALL LIFE
 

To nurture the Spirit-feelingness of the Place
People
 

...CHILDREN OF THE EARTH
 

To respect the integrity of Indigenous Peoples
of the World, their beliefs and ways; and
 

...OUR TEWA PATH OF BEING
 

To nurture and strengthen the energy bonding
of the multi-versal spirit of reciprocity
 

...EARTH TO PEOPLES
 

and
 

...PEOPLES TO PEOPLES
 

in a manner harmonious
with the cyclic nature of
 

...THE BREATH OF LIFE
 

To aid in broadening the availability and appreciation of cultural diversity (values, language, beliefs and ways) for the interconnectiveness of all is represented
 

...IN ONE'S OWN COMMUNITY
 

In implementing the directionality, TWU must exercise loving care to understand, process, maintain and/or improve physical, economic, political, social, emotional and mental environment in which the Indigenous Peoples flourish...


in a manner harmonious with the multiple dimensional natural laws of
 

...THE GIVER OF LIFE

 

 

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