MooNEY] KIOWA SYNONYMY 149 



^eowos— Porter, 1829, In Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, iii, 596, 1853. 



Keaways — Farnham, Travels, 29, 1843. 



Ki'-d-wd — Lewis, Report, 1805, in Mess, from the President Communicating Discov- 

 eries by Lewis and Clark, etc, 37, 1806. 



Kiaways — Gallatin, in Trans. American Ethn. Soc, li, cvii, 1848. 



Kinatoas — Gallatin, in Trans. American Antiq. 8oc., ii, 133, 1836 (misprint). 



Einiwas — Wilkes, U. S. Exploring Exped., iv, 473, 1845 (misprint). 



Eiovas — Mollhausen, Journey to the Pacific, i, 158, 1858 (misprint). 



Kioums — Eept. Comm'r Ind. Afl'airs, 240, 1834. This is the American official and 

 geographic form; pronounced Eai'-o-wa. 



Eioirahs — Davis, El Gringo, 17, 1857. 



Eioways — Brackenridge, Views of Louisiana, 80, 1814. 



Eiwaa — Kendall, Santa Fi^ Ex., i, 198, 1844 (given as the pronumiation of Cai/gUa). 



Eiiyairas^Sage, Scenes in tlie Rocky Mountains, 167, 1846. 



Eyaways — Piko(1807), Expedition, app. ll, 16, 1810. 



Biaiia — Kennedy, Texas, i, 189, 1841 (double niisi)rint). 



Ryaiias — Morse, Rept. on Ind. Aft'., app., 367, 1822 (misprint). 



/?i/«»'«s— Urackeuridge, A^iews of Louisiana, 85, 1814 (misprint). 



Ko'mpabi'onia—" Large tipi flaps,'' a name sometimes used by the Kiowa to desig- 

 nate themselves. 



Eompa'go — An abbreviated form of Eo'mpabi'atita. 



Ewu"d<i' — "Coming out," or "going out;" the most ancient name by which the 

 Kiowa designated tliemselves. See Te'pdd', 



Na'la'ni — "Many aliens," or "many enemies;" the collective Navaho name for the 

 southern plains tribes, particularly the Comanche and Kiowa. 



Ni'chiliine'na — "River men." the Arajiaho name, from h i' c/iin river and liinr'iin (singu- 

 lar Mnc'ii) men. The Kiowa are said to have been so called from their long resi- 

 dence on the upper Arkansas. 



Ni-ci'-he-nen-a — Hayden, Ethn. and Phil. Missouri Valley, 326, 1862. 



Xitchihi — Gatschet in American Antiquarian, iv, 281, 1881. 



Shi' sh-i-nu' -iciit-tsi' t-a-ni-o — Hayden, Ethn. and Phil. Missouri Val., 290, 1X62. Im- 

 properly given as the Cheyenne name for the Kiowa and rendered "rattlesnake 

 people." The proper form is .S7ii'.9/ir«»'«'Ht-^si(«H('H, "snake [not rattlesnake] peo- 

 ple," and is the Cheyenne name for the Comanche, not the Kiowa, whom the 

 Cheyenne call Witapd'tn. The mistake arose from the fact that the Comanche 

 and Kiowa are confederated. 



Te'pdd' — "Coming out," "going out," "issuing" (as water from a spring, or ants 

 from a hole) ; an ancient name used by the Kiowa to designate themselves, but 

 later than Ewii"da, q. v. The two names, which have the same meaning, may 

 refer to tlieir mythic origin or to their coming into the plains region. The name 

 Te'pdd' may have been substituted for Ewu"da', in accordance with a custom of 

 the tribe, on account of the death of some person bearing a name suggestive of 

 the earlier form. 



Tepk'i'ndgo — "People coming out," another form of Te'pdd'. 



Wi'tapdha'tu — The Dakota name, which the Dakota commonly render as people of 

 the "island butte," from wita, island, and pdhii, htcntive jidhdta, a butte. They 

 are unable to assign any satisfactory reason for such a name. See TVitapahdl. 



T'hdpeVhdpa'yiVhe — Arbuthnut letter in Bur. Am. Eth. (given as the Cheyenne name 

 for the Kiowa). 



Vi'tiipd'lu'i — Name used for the Kiowa by the Sutaya division of the Cheyenne. 



7ra(a;(j)a7iato— Mallery in Fourth Ann. Rep, Bur. Eth., 109, 1886. 



Tra/e-jwHa-foe-f— Br.ackenridge, Views of Louisiana, 85, 1814 (misprint). 

 JVati'paiieto — Drake, Book of Indians, xii, 1848 (misprint). 



TTilalialo — Lewis, Travels, 15, 1809 (misprint). 



n'etapahato — Lewis and Clark. Exjiedition, Allen ed., i, 34, map, 1814. 



