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Kiowa

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kiowa , Native North Americans whose language is thought to form a branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). The Kiowa, a nomadic people of the Plains area, had several distinctive traits, including a pictographic calendar and the worship of a stone image, the taimay. In the 17th cent. they occupied W Montana, but by about 1700 they had moved to an area SE of the Yellowstone River. Here they came into contact with the Crow, who gave the Kiowa permission to settle in the Black Hills. While living there, they acquired (c.1710) the horse, probably from the... Read more
Kiowa
...with Comanche and Apache . Their language is of Kiowa-Tanoan language stock. The name Kiowa may be a variant of their name for themselves, Kai-i-gwu, meaning 'Principal People.' The Kiowa moved southward from western Montana and adopted... Read more
Kiowa
Kiowa Major tribe of Tanoan-speaking Native North Americans who moved from their earlier Yellowstone–Missouri River homeland into the southern Plains region, where they eventually allied with the Comanche and Arapaho. Today the descendants of the Kiowa live mostly in Oklahoma. Read more

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