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Definition of Tanoan

1. Noun. A family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tanoan

Literary usage of Tanoan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The inhabitants are of tanoan stock, law-abiding and prosperous and owners of productive farms. Pop. about 500. JENA, ya'na, Germany, town, miles east of ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The inhabitants are of tanoan stock, law-abiding and prosperous and owners of productive farms. Pop. about 500. JENA, yä'nä, Germany, town, miles east of ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Its inhabitants, of tanoan Shoshonean stock, are all that remain of an important tribe occupying some ten villages in the same region when first known to ..."

4. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 3/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"had departed and the pueblo was almost in ruins on their return in 1681. The entire Piros division of the tanoan family probably ..."

5. Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1903)
"... regarded as one of the 83 tanoan names for Hopi ... 122-124 tanoan pueblo, buffalo dance at 43 Tan towa. Xff, Sun clan. ..."

6. Basis of American History, 1500-1900 by Livingston Farrand (1904)
"The present pueblos, though exhibiting practically the same culture, are distributed between four different linguistic stocks: the tanoan, the Keresan, ..."

7. Basis of American History, 1500-1900 by Livingston Farrand (1906)
"The present pueblos, though exhibiting practically the same culture, are distributed between four different linguistic stocks: the tanoan, the Keresan, ..."

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