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Definition of Kiowa

1. Noun. A member of a Tanoan people living in the southwestern United States.

Definition of Kiowa

1. Proper noun. The '''Kiowa''' people of North America, currently in Oklahoma. ¹

2. Proper noun. The Kiowa language of the Kiowa-Tanoan language family. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kiowa

Literary usage of Kiowa

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

1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1869)
"... between the United State» of America and the kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians ; Concluded October 21, 1867 ; Ratification advised July 25, ..."

2. The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 by James Mooney (1896)
"While retaining their distinct language, they nearly all speak and understand kiowa and form a component part of the kiowa camping circle. ..."

3. An Analysis of U. S. Army Helicopter Programs by Frances M. Lussier (1996)
"In addition, it would buy improved versions of the kiowa Warrior. o Alternative IV ... Alternative I: Retain a Smaller Comanche Program, Buy Improved kiowa ..."

4. Annual Report of the Attorney-general of the United States by United States Dept. of Justice, United States Attorney-General (1892)
"Comanche and Chickasaw Comanche and Kickapoo Comanche and kiowa Comanche and Lipan Comanche ... Creck and Seminole Crow and kiowa Crow, Nez Perce, Piegan, ..."

5. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society (1892)
"While making ethnologic investigations among the kiowa on the upper Red river in Indian Territory the writer obtained, among other things, a peculiarly ..."

6. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1897)
"In kiowa county it follows up the Medicine Lodge river and its branches to the vicinity of their head waters, when it turns southeasterly crossing the ..."

7. The Life and Adventures of a Quaker Among the Indians by Thomas Chester Battey (1903)
"OPENING OF THE SCHOOL IN THE kiowa CAMPS. — ADVENTURE WITH A MIDDLE-AGED ... \st Month, Z&d. — I this day record the opening of a school in the kiowa camp, ..."

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