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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



(KTH. ANN. 17 



Cho'iisUita' (Apucliel — An Apache signer 

 of the treiitv of 1867. The name 

 appears on the treaty as ■' Cho-se-ta, 

 or Had Baek." 



Clio-SE-TA — see Cho'nshita'. 



CoMAi.TY — see A'dalton-e'dal. 



CoN-A-HKX-KA — " Cou-a-hen-ka. the 

 Home Frog" (sie). a Kiowa signer of 

 the treaty of 1837, as the name appears 

 in the treaty. The horned frog (toad 

 or lizard) is called se'haii, and the cor- 

 rect name may possilily have heen 

 Se'hiiiik'i'a, •'Horned-toad-man." In 

 the treaty of 1867 T'ene'-ango'pte. 

 •'Kieking-liird,'' appears as "Ton-a- 

 en-ko or Kicking Eagle." 



CORBEAU — see Gaa'-boho'ii. 



da— (1) eye; (2) star. 



-d.1 — kill (in composition). 



Da do'ha' — ''medicine blnft'," from da'-i 

 .and do'ha': Monnt Rochester, etc, 

 on the upper South Canadian, Texas 

 panhandle. 



Da'goi — a Kiowa hero (see story, Sum- 

 mer 1857). The name seems to con- 

 tain the word rf<i'-i, "medicine." 



da'gya — song. 



Daha (Apache) — a Kiowa Apache chief 

 and delegate in 1872; still living. 



Da'hii'te — see ilama'nte, 



daho'tal — tliey kill us. See elio'tal. 



da'-i — ''medicine,'' sacred, religious, 

 mysterious; da'-i. "medicine." in the 

 ordinary English .sense, is sometimes 

 distinguished from da'hd, medicine, in 

 the Indian sense of sacred or mysteri- 

 ous; Dak'i'a, God; Daki'ada, Sunday. 



Daki'ada — .Sunday; ''medicine day," 

 from da'-i and ki'ada. 



Daki'a-Ka'n — Saturday ; " little medicine 



day," from da'-i, ki'ada, and siin. 

 dam — (1) warpath, war expedition; (2) 



first. 

 D;i'-m:i'ta'n(-ta) — "star girls," from do 

 and mii'ia'n; the Pleiades. There is a 

 myth to account for the name. A cere- 

 monial invocation and sacrifice were 

 formerly made to them by mothers on be- 

 half of their sick children, but the last 

 priestess of the ceremony is now dead. 

 Dii'-mii'ta'n-a' p'a — Salt fork of Red 

 river in Greer county, Oklahoma; lit- 

 erally, '• Star girls (i. e., Pleiades) tree 

 river," from Du'-miita'n, «, and p'a: so 

 called from a noted tree formerly 

 there, which grew trom the sprouting 



of a twig driven into the ground to 

 support the "medicine" on occasion 

 of a ceremonial sacrifice performed by 

 the mother of Stunibling-bcar (see 

 above). The tice was about 30 miles 

 up the creek and was finally cut down 

 by the Comanche. 



da'm-kofi kya — evening; literally, "first 

 darkness," fr(un rfiim and kofikiia : also 

 called (JrAomrfo/c(-(/i/a), from an archaic 

 root referring to slight darkness. 



dan — canyon, pass. 



dan' — shoulder. 



Da'npii' — see Dohaaan (-i). 



dii'npa'-ingya — crown of the head. 



Da'n-pa'-ingyat'a'-i — "Bald-head," "bald 

 on the crown of the head," from rf(i'n(o', 

 dd'npa'-inijya: Lawrie Tatum, agent for 

 the Kiowa and allied tribes, 1860-1873. 



dii'nto' — bald; I am bald, ti'dii iito'ita'. 



Da'teka'fi — " Keeps -his -name -always;" 

 it contains the root of kii'ngiia, name; 

 a Kiowa who assumed the role of 

 prophet in 1881-82, taking the name of 

 Pa'te'pte, "Buffalo-bull-coming-out," 

 from pa. tep, and te. 



Datiimpa'la (Hidatsa?) — given as the 

 Hidatsa name for the Kiowa (see Ki- 

 owa synonymy). 



Dave'ko (Apache) — a Kiowa Apache chief 

 and medicine man. 



-de (in composition) — (1) all. many; (2) 

 a possessive suffix ("of"), sometimes 

 equivalent to "when," ''where," or 

 "there," as Pai'-iiili/i'-dt' Iseiiko, Sun- 

 boy's horses; Pa'-a'niiya taii'n-de sai, 

 "winter when Sitting-bull came," 

 '' winter of Sitting-bull's coming." 



De'a' p'a — "All-kinds-of-trees creek," or 

 "Many-trees (or bushes) creek;" a 

 stream in Kansas somewhere about 

 Fort Dodge. 



-de'e' — there is, where is ; a suffix in com- 

 position. 



degau'ta — I trade (either buying or sell- 

 ing); gania, trading; gan'la do', trad- 

 ing house; gaii'iak'i', trader. 



de'hi ii — late afternoon, after about three 

 oclock. Cf. dvki'dsa. 



deki'asa — afternoon, iintil about three 

 oclock. Cf. di'hi'n. 



deko'mdo'le(-gya) — see da'mko'nkya. 



de'ngya — ice. 



Dengyii-ko n k'op — "Black-ice moun- 

 tain." from dcni/iiii, koilki/a, and A' op; 

 a mountain on the southern edge of the 



