![]() ![]() Later, they called themselves Kom-pa-bianta for "people with large tipi flaps", before they met Southern Plains tribes or before they met white men. The second element -gua refers to "men or people", so the meaning of the two elements is "Kiowa people" to express "Principal People" (sometimes "Chief People") or "genuine, real or true People" in Kiowa is to add the ending -hin.Īncient names were Kútjàu or Kwu-da ("emerging" or "coming out rapidly") and Tep-da, relating to the myth pulling or coming out of a hollow log until a pregnant woman got stuck. Kae-kia means a Kiowa man Kae-ma is a Kiowa woman. The first part of the name is the element Kae-, Cáui- or Gai- which means the Kiowa themselves – it may derive from the word ka ' (mother) or from ka-a (a type of spear with feathers along its length). Kiowa call themselves Ka'igwu, Cáuigù or Gaigwu, most given with the meaning "Principal People". The Kiowa language (Cáuijògà) is still spoken today and is part of the Tanoan language family. Today they are federally recognized as Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma with headquarters in Carnegie, Oklahoma. In 1867, the Kiowa were moved to a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. They migrated from western Montana southward into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries, and finally into the Southern Plains by the early 19th century. The Kiowas ( / ˈ k aɪ ə w ə, - w ɑː, - w eɪ/) are a tribe of Native Americans.
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