KITS 



THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION 



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Wanwayag — to see it. Compare Wan- 

 ma yanka i/o. 



Wanwe'gala'kin-Tcte — I sli all see mj own. 

 Compare Wafima yanka-yo. 



Wanyafi — for wan, a (the article). 



Waiiyegalake-kta — you (plural) shall see 

 yourown; from watibala'ki, I see it. Kte 

 or I,la is the future suffix. 



Waahte' — good. 



Wa'ana — pemmican. See Sioux song 7. 



Wnti n-kte — I shall eat; wawa'te, I eat. 



Wawa'kabla-kte — I shall spread out the 

 meat to dry ; ka'ila, to spread out meat 

 for drying. 



Il'n liana — now : another form of viana. 



We — an emphatic snttix particle equiva- 

 lent to verily or indeed. 



Wecha'ghe — I made them tor him. 



WichS'shka — a tipi; the word literally 

 means only the opening at the top of 

 the tipi. 



Ililni ta — the bottom of a tipi. 



Wowa'hifi-kte — I shall cook; wowa'han,l 

 cook (generic). 



Yanipi-kta — you (plural) will live: from 

 ni iia-uii, I am alive. 



Yanyan — an unmeaning word used in tin- 

 songs to lill up the measure. 



Ye — an emphatic, imperative, or preca- 

 tory particle or suflix, usually spoken 

 by a woman. In the songs it seems 

 frequently to ho used merely for eu- 

 phony. 



Ye'ye! — au unmeaning exclamation used 

 in the sougs. 



Yoyoyo — ibid. 



THH KIOWA AND KIOWA APACHE 

 KIOWA TRIBAL SYNONYMY 



/,'r shUtcha — Kiowa Apache name, meaning uukuowu. 



Ciniiinii — Spanish form, from their proper name, Kaijwu. 



Gahe nil — Wichita and ICichai name; another form of Kiowa. 



An' iijirii — " real or principal people," proper tribal name 



Kai-wa — Comanche and Caddo name: from their proper name, Kaigwu. 



Kiowa — popular name, a corruption of the name used by themselves. 



hiru'ilit — "going out;" old name formerly used by the Kiowa for themselves. 



Ni'chihine'na — "river men," Arapaho name; so called because they formerly lived on 



upper Arkansas river, from which the Arapaho claim to have driven them. 

 Tepda — "coming out," " issuing: " another old name formerly used by the Kiowa 



for themselves. 

 Witapa'hai or Witapa'iu — Cheyenne name, from their Sioux name, Witapaha'tu. 

 Wi'tapaha'tu — "island butte people" ( I), Sioux name. 



KIOWA TRIBAL SIGN 



The Kiowa tribal sign indicates "haircut off at right ear," in allusion 

 to a former custom of the warriors. From a careless habit in making 

 this sign it has sometimes been wrongly interpreted to mean "foolish," 

 or " rattle-brain." 



SKETCH OF THE KIOWA 



So far as present knowledge goes, the Kiowa constitute a distinct 

 linguistic stock; but it is probable that more material will enable us to 

 prove their connection with some tribes farther north, from which 

 direction they came. They are noticed in the Spanish records as early 

 at least as 1732. Their oldest tradition, which agrees with the con- 

 current testimony of the Shoshoni and Arapaho, locates them about 

 the junction of Jeffersou, Madison, and Gallatin forks, at the extreme 

 head of Missouri river, in the neighborhood of the present Virginia 



