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choking and nasal sounds, and is not well adapted to rhythmic compo- 

 sition, for which reason they frequently used the Arapaho songs in the 

 Ghost dance, without any clear idea of the meaning or correct pronun- 

 ciation, although they have quite a number of songs of their own. 



THE KIOWA APACHE 



A small tribe of Athapascan stock, calling themselves Na'-isha or 

 N~a-di'i8ha-de'na, and popularly known as Apache or Kiowa Apache, 

 has been associated with the Kiowa as far back as the traditions of 

 either tribe go. While retaining their distinct language, they nearly 

 all speak and understand Kiowa and form a component part of the 

 Kiowa camping circle. In dress and general habits of life they are in 

 no way distinguishable. They have come from the north witli the 

 Kiowa, and are mentioned under the name of Cataka as living in the 

 Black-hills country iu 1805. La Salle speaks of them under the name 

 of Gattacka as early as 1681. There is no reason to suppose that they 

 ever formed a part of the Apache proper of Arizona and Kew Mexico, 

 but are probably, like the Sarsi, a distinct Athapascan people who have 

 always lived east of the mountains, and who, having been obliged by 

 weakness of numbers to unite themselves with a stronger tribe, have 

 since shared their migratory fortunes southward along the plains. The 

 jSTa-isha are called Ga'taqJca by the Pawnee and sometimes by the 

 Wichita; Cataka by Lewis and Clark, in 1805; KataJca in their first 

 treaty with the government, made jointly with the Kiowa in is.37 ; 

 Ta'shin by the Comanche; Gina's by the Wichita; Ka'ntsi, '-deceivers," 

 by the Caddo; Kiri'naMs by the Kichais; Tha'lcahine'na, "knife- whet- 

 ting men (?)" by the Arapaho, and Mutsianata'niuw', ■•whetstone 

 people," by the Cheyenne. They have several names among the Kiowa, 

 but are commonly known by them as Semat, "thieves." Other Kiowa 

 names for them are Tagu'i, of unknown meaning, and Sa'dalso'mte-Tcin- 

 ago, "weasel people." The tribal sign for them, as for the Apache, 

 Lipan, and Navaho, conveys the idea of "knife whetters." In 1891 they 

 numbered 325. In 1893 they had been reduced, chietly by an epidemic 

 of measles, to 224. 



More extended information in regard to the Kiowa and Kiowa 

 Apache will be given in the author's memoir, "Calendar History of the 

 Kiowa Indians," now in preparation for the Bureau of Ethnology. 



SONGS OF THE KIOWA 



1. 1 >.\ TA-I M) HATE 



Da'ta i soda te, 

 Da'ta-i so'da'te. 

 Do'm eza'ntcda'te, 

 Do in eza'nteda'te. 

 De'tmha'date, 

 De'inihii'date. 

 Be'a'ma uliiiyi ', 

 Be'a'ma'nhayi'. 



