THE NADIISHA-DElSrA OR KIOWA APACHE 



TRIBAL SY?rO]SrYMY 



Apaches — Ageut Thomas Fitzpatrick, Ind. Report, 52, 1850. This has been their 



official jiopuhir name for the last fifty years. 

 Apaches of Arkansas river — Agent J. W. Whitfield, Report, 255, 1855. 

 Ai}aches of the Plains — Pope, 1854, in Pacific Railroad Survey, 17, 1855. 

 Kiowa Apaches — Clark, Indian Sign Language, 33, 1885. 

 Esikwita — Properly the name of the Mescalero Apache, but in various forms — 



Essequetii, etc — has sometimes been incorrectly applied to the Kiowa Apache. 

 GntaAa— lloouey, Misc. Ind. MS. So called by the Pawnee. 

 Ca'taku — Lewis, Report, 1805, in Mess, from the President communicating discoveries 



by Lewis and Clark, etc, 38, 1806. 

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



Cattako — Lewis and Clark, Discoveries, 23, 1806. , 



Cutlako — .\merican St.ate Papers, IV, 710, 1832. 



Gataen (for Gataca) — La Salle, 1682, in Margry, Docouvertes, ii, 168, 1877. 

 Gataka — Harris, Coll. Voy. and Travels, i, map, 685, 1705. 

 Gatlacka — La Salle, 1682, in Margry, Deeouvertes, ii, 201, 1877. 

 Gii'ta'k — La Flesche, Omaha and Ponca name, probably derived from the Pawnee. 

 Ka-ta-ka — Kioway, Kataka, and Towakaro treaty^ ratified 1838. 

 Kaitekas — French, Hist. Colls, of Louisiana, new series, i, 1.53, note, 1869. 

 Quataquois—'La Harpe, 1719, in Margry, Deeouvertes, vi, 289. 

 <Juata<iuon — Beaurain, 1719, ibid. 



Tha'kd-hini'na I Moouey, Misc. Ind. MS. Arapaho names, derived from Gataka 

 Tha'kd-iiun i and hiiu'na, " people," or ita'n, "tribe." 

 Gind's — Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Wichita name. 



Edntsi — Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Caddo collective name for the Apache tribes, sig- 

 nifying "liars;" hence Cancy, etc. 

 K'd-paiop — A generic Kiowa name for several tribes cognate with the Apache, 



including Apache proper, Mescalero, Lipan, and Kiowa Apache. It signifies 



" kuife-whctters," or " whetstone peojile." The name became obsolete about six 



years ago in consequence of the <leath of a Kiowa chief named K'd-pd'te. 

 Kisinuhis — Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Kichai name. 

 Miltsidnd-tdnin — Cheyenne name, signifying " whetstone people." 

 Nadiisha-dena — The name used by themselves, signifying "our people" or "people 



of our kind;" singular, Nd-isha. Dena, "people," is the word which, in the 



various dialectal forms of dina, tine, di'ne, tune, nde, etc, enters into so many 



tribal names of the Atha]i.ascan stock. 

 Prairie J^mc/ie— Whitfield in Rept. Comr. of Ind. ,Vft'., 297, 18.54. 

 Sndalsdmte-l'idno — Another Kiowa name for the Kiowa Apache, signifying "weasel 



people." 

 Semdl — The name by which the Kiowa call them, signifying "thieves;" the name 



which designates this tribe alone, super-seded a few years ago the more general 



terra K dpu'top. 

 Tagiii — The old Kiowa name for the Apache tribes generally, superseded for a time by 



K d-pd'top, but now again in use. Cf Tdkd-i, '• white man." 

 Td'giKjdIa — Hodge, Pueblo MS. Notes, 1895. The .Jemez name for the Apache tribes, 



including the Kiowa Apache. 

 Tdt/Hkeresh — Hodge, Pueblo MS. Notes, 1895. The Pecos name for the Apache tribes, 



including the Kiowa Apache. 

 Tashin — Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Comanche generic name for the Apache tribes. 



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