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Kiowa

(kī′ō wä′, -ə wə)

noun

pl. Kiowas or Kiowa a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in Colorado, Oklahoma, and other W states, and now living in Oklahoma
the Tanoan language of this people

Origin: Sp Caygua < Kiowa kygú

See Kiowa in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. Kiowa Kiowa or Ki·o·was

a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting the southern Great Plains, with a present-day population in southwest Oklahoma. The Kiowa migrated onto the plains in the late 17th century from an earlier territory in western Montana.
b. A member of this people.
The Tanoan language of the Kiowa.

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