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What does Tanoan mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to a family of languages spoken in New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
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Among the most recent arrivals in Tusayan was another group of Tanoan clans which will be considered in this article.
Among these arrivals were Tanoan warriors and their families, part of whom were ancestors of the present inhabitants of Hano.
Among important increments in modern times may be mentioned several clans of Tanoan ancestry, as the Asa, Honani, and the like.
The large collections of so-called modern Hopi pottery in our museums is modified Tanoan ware, made in Tusayan.
There is good documentary evidence that Sandia was settled by Tanoan people from Tusayan.
The other Texas tribe that probably spoke Tiwa or a form of Tanoan are the Jumano.

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