Kiowa Apache

n. pl. Kiowa Apache or Kiowa Apaches

1. A member of a Native American people of the southern Great Plains who formed an integral part of the Kiowa tribe and shared its culture and history although speaking an unrelated Athabaskan language.

2. The Athabaskan language of the Kiowa Apache.

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References in periodicals archive

The Kiowa connection with perhaps another branch of the Plains Apache, the Kiowa Apache appears to go back to the early 1700s in the Black Hills and they accompanied the Kiowa south.

Southern Plains men's moccasins with fringe: part III: Comanche

of Oklahoma, "Ethnobotany of the Kiowa Apache." In her thesis, she described how the Plains (or Kiowa) Apache Indians conceptualized and categorized the plant world, listed some 110 wild plant species of cultural significance to the Apache, and discussed the cultural context in which the species were used.

Plains Apache ethnobotany

(24) Handgame of the Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, and Comanche Vol.

Songs of the people: Plains Indian music and recordings, 1968-1996

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