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  INDIAN 
  LINGUISTIC 
  FAMILIES. 
  

  

  KIOWAN 
  FAMILY. 
  

  

  Kia 
  ways. 
  Gallatin 
  in 
  Schoolcraft, 
  End. 
  Tribes, 
  in, 
  402, 
  1853 
  (on 
  upper 
  waters 
  Ar- 
  

   kansas). 
  

  

  = 
  Kioway, 
  Turner 
  in 
  Pac. 
  R. 
  R. 
  Rep., 
  m. 
  pt. 
  3,55,80, 
  is:,ii 
  (based 
  on 
  the 
  Kioway 
  (Cal- 
  

   gua) 
  tribe 
  only). 
  Buschmann, 
  Spuren 
  der 
  aztek. 
  Sprache, 
  432, 
  4:!:i, 
  1859. 
  

   Latham, 
  El. 
  Comp. 
  Phil.. 
  444. 
  1862 
  (" 
  more 
  Paduea 
  than 
  aught 
  else"). 
  

  

  = 
  Kayowe, 
  Gatschet 
  in 
  Am. 
  Antic|.. 
  '.'so. 
  Oct., 
  l«s-.> 
  (gives 
  phi 
  metics 
  of). 
  

  

  Derivation: 
  Prom 
  the 
  Kiowa 
  word 
  Kd-i, 
  plural 
  Ko-igu, 
  meaning 
  

   " 
  Kayowe 
  man." 
  The 
  Comanche 
  term 
  kayowe 
  means 
  " 
  rat." 
  

  

  The 
  author 
  who 
  first 
  formally 
  separated 
  this 
  family 
  appears 
  to 
  

   have 
  been 
  Turner. 
  Gallatin 
  mentions 
  the 
  tribe 
  and 
  remarks 
  that 
  

   owing 
  to 
  the 
  loss 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Say's 
  vocabularies 
  "we 
  only 
  know 
  thai 
  

   both 
  the 
  Kiowas 
  and 
  Kaskaias 
  languages 
  were 
  harsh, 
  guttural, 
  and 
  

   extremely 
  difficult.'* 
  Turner, 
  upon 
  the 
  strength 
  of 
  a 
  vocabulary 
  

   furnished 
  by 
  Lieut. 
  Whipple, 
  dissents 
  from 
  the 
  opinion 
  expressed 
  

   by 
  Pike 
  and 
  others 
  to 
  the 
  effect 
  that 
  the 
  language 
  is 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  

   stock 
  as 
  the 
  Comanche, 
  and, 
  while 
  admitting 
  that 
  its 
  relationship 
  

   to 
  Camanche 
  is 
  greater 
  than 
  to 
  any 
  other 
  family, 
  thinks 
  that 
  the 
  

   likeness 
  is 
  merely 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  long 
  intercommunication. 
  His 
  

   opinion 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  entirely 
  distinct 
  from 
  any 
  other 
  language 
  has 
  been 
  

   indorsed 
  by 
  Buschmann 
  and 
  other 
  authorities. 
  The 
  family 
  is 
  rep- 
  

   resented 
  by 
  the 
  Kiowa 
  tribe. 
  

  

  So 
  intimately 
  associated 
  with 
  the 
  Comanches 
  have 
  the 
  Kiowa 
  

   been 
  since 
  known 
  to 
  history 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  easy 
  to 
  determine 
  their 
  

   pristine 
  home. 
  By 
  the 
  Medicine 
  Creek 
  treaty 
  of 
  October 
  is, 
  1867, 
  

   they 
  and 
  the 
  Comanches 
  were 
  assigned'their 
  present 
  reservation 
  in 
  

   the 
  Indian 
  Territory, 
  both 
  resigning 
  all 
  claims 
  to 
  other 
  territory. 
  

   especially 
  their 
  claims 
  and 
  rights 
  in 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  country 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  

   Cimarron 
  River 
  and 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  eastern 
  boundary 
  of 
  New 
  Mexico. 
  

  

  The 
  terms 
  of 
  the 
  cession 
  might 
  lie 
  taken 
  to 
  indicate 
  a 
  joint 
  owner- 
  

   ship 
  of 
  territory, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  more 
  likely 
  that 
  the 
  Kiowa 
  territory 
  

   adjoined 
  the 
  Comanche 
  on 
  the 
  northwest. 
  In 
  fact 
  Pope 
  2 
  definitely 
  

   locates 
  the 
  Kiowa 
  in 
  the 
  valley 
  of 
  the 
  Upper 
  Arkansas, 
  and 
  of 
  its. 
  

   tributary, 
  the 
  Purgatory 
  (Las 
  Animas) 
  River. 
  This 
  is 
  in 
  substan- 
  

   tial 
  accord 
  with 
  the 
  statements 
  of 
  other 
  writers 
  of 
  about 
  the 
  same 
  

   period. 
  Schermerhorn 
  (18P2) 
  places 
  the 
  Kiowa 
  on 
  the 
  heads 
  of 
  the 
  

   Arkansas 
  and 
  Platte. 
  Earlier 
  still 
  they 
  appear 
  upon 
  the 
  headwaters 
  

   of 
  the 
  Platte, 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  region 
  assigned 
  them 
  upon 
  the 
  map. 
  1 
  

   This 
  region 
  was 
  occupied 
  later 
  by 
  the 
  Cheyenne 
  and 
  Arapaho 
  of 
  

   Algonquian 
  stock. 
  

  

  Population. 
  — 
  According 
  to 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  census 
  for 
  1890 
  there 
  

   are 
  1,1-10 
  Kiowaon 
  the 
  Kiowa. 
  Comanche, 
  and 
  Wichita 
  Reservation, 
  

   Indian 
  Territory. 
  

  

  'Trans. 
  and 
  Coll. 
  Am. 
  Antiq.Soc., 
  1836, 
  vol. 
  n, 
  p. 
  133. 
  

  

  - 
  Par. 
  R. 
  R. 
  Re])., 
  is:,.-,, 
  vol. 
  2, 
  pt. 
  :',. 
  p. 
  1li. 
  

  

  3 
  Pike. 
  Exp. 
  to 
  sources 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi. 
  A 
  pp. 
  . 
  1810, 
  pt. 
  3, 
  p. 
  9. 
  

  

  