Kiowa

Ki·o·wa

pl. -·was· or -·wa· 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 of Kiowa

Spanish Caygua from Kiowa k?ygú

Kiowa

noun

pl. Kiowa, or Ki·o·was

A member of 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 1600s from an earlier territory in western Montana.
The Kiowa-Tanoan language of the Kiowa.

Origin of Kiowa

Kiowa k&irevc;ygu Kiowa people

kiowa

Proper noun

The Kiowa people of North America, currently in Oklahoma.
The Kiowa language of the Kiowa-Tanoan language family.

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He was conspicuously successful (1869-1886) in dealing with Indian outbreaks, fighting the Cheyenne, Kiowa and Comanche on Llano Estacado (1875) and the Sioux in Montana (1876), capturing the Nez Perces under Chief Joseph (1877), and defeating the Chiricahua Apaches under Geronimo (1886), and he commanded the United States troops sent to Chicago during the railway riots in 1894.
A sanguinary attack on an Indian camp in Kiowa county in 1864 is known as the Sand Creek Massacre.
About 3000 acres (nearly one-half in the narrow extension in the N.W.) were already irrigated in 1909, and surveys had been made by the Federal Reclamation Service with a view to irrigating about 100,000 acres more-10,000 to 14,000 acres in Beaver and Woodward counties, under the Cimarron project, and 80,000 to ioo,000 acres in Kiowa and Comanche counties, under the Red River project.
The only Indians who are natives of this region are a few members of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache tribes.

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