Organization
Tewa Women United
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Tewa Women United, founded in 1989 in New Mexico, works on ending violence, reproductive justice and environmental justice; it is not a land trust.
- Kind
- 501(c)(3) nonprofit
- Native-led
- yes-self-described
- Works with
- Tewa Pueblos of the northern Rio Grande
- Region
- Southwest; NM
- Focus
- Native women-led environmental, reproductive and gender justice work in Tewa homelands, including environmental justice around Los Alamos
- Registry
- EIN 85-0480836 (own site; ProPublica: Tewa Women United, Espanola NM)
What happened
Tewa Women United (TWU) says it started in 1989 as a support group for women from the Pueblos of the northern Rio Grande concerned with the effects of colonization, religious inquisition and militarization. In 2001, its About page says, it became a 501(c)(3). The page calls it an organization founded and led by Native women. ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer lists it in Española, New Mexico, with tax exemption issued in August 2001. Its staff page lists Dr. Corrine Sanchez of San Ildefonso Pueblo as Executive Director.
TWU's stated purpose is ending all forms of violence against Native women and girls and Mother Earth, and promoting peace in New Mexico. Its programs include reproductive justice, with doula and birth support, and an Environmental Justice Program. The program page says it works on nuclear abolition, human rights and the rights of the Earth Mother and Sky Father. Its news page lists items on the Frijoles Fire, a Plutonium Pit PEIS toolkit, and Area G and its effects, which are hazards issues rather than land-return work.
Its pages describe no land purchase, return or acreage. The land connection is advocacy on environmental harms and food and healing programs. The board page says a board member is from Kewa Pueblo.
Good to know. Works on ending violence, health and environmental justice; it is not a land trust or land-return fund.
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Tewa Women United (TWU) started in 1989 as a support group for women from the Pueblos of the northern Rio Grande
About Us - Tewa Women UnitedIn 2001 we transitioned from an informal, all volunteer group to a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
About Us - Tewa Women UnitedDr. Corrine Sanchez, Executive Director
Staff - Tewa Women UnitedWe engage in local, national, and international dialogue and activism on nuclear abolition, human rights
Environmental Justice Program - TWUEspanola, NM Tax exemption issued: Aug. 2001 EIN: 85-0480836
ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer: Tewa Women United
Research notes. Environmental justice, health and anti-violence work rather than land return. Do not present as a land-return fund. The ways-to-give page, which the record says prints the EIN, was not re-read here.
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- 2026-10-17: EIN appears on the organization's own Ways to Give page and in ProPublica with matching name and city. Board page lists Native members with pueblo affiliations (for example a Kewa Pueblo board member). Land focus is environmental justice rather than land return. Source: https://tewawomenunited.org/about-us ("a multicultural and multiracial organization founded and led by Native women")
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