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Kiowa
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Ki·o·wa  (k-wô, -wä, -w)
n. pl. Kiowa or Ki·o·was
1.
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.
2. The Tanoan language of the Kiowa.
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Noun1.KiowaKiowa - a member of a Tanoan people living in the southwestern United States
Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian - a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America
2.Kiowa - the Tanoan language spoken by the Kiowa
Tanoan, Tanoan language - a family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States


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Thus, like Ortiz's Sand Creek, the screen becomes a negative site, a site where Indians return again and again to see Apaches, Comanches, and Kiowas, killed, vilified, demonized, and oppressed.
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