Many Pueblo people have two different names.
One is the name in the traditional Indian language, the other, a name in the European tradition of given and family names. Traditional Indian names often have specific meanings. For instance, the name Awa Tsireh means Cattail Bird. The name is treated as a phrase and is not broken into first and last names, or given and family names. After seeing several examples of Awa Tsireh's work for sale in a souvenir shop in 1917, Alice Corbin Henderson sought out the artist and developed a great respect for his work and that of his peers.