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KIOWA-ENOLISH GLOi?SARY 



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Gi'agu'adfilta'go — Imliaus; literally, 

 "people of red flesh," from gi, gu'ddaJ, 

 and go. 



gi'iigya — battle, coup; I am fightiug, 

 depai'gop; I strike in battle, gi/aiji'agoj). 



gi'aka'-i — "back hide," from gi'apu'- 

 ingga and ka-i, a piece of rawhide worn 

 over the shoulders liy women to j)ro- 

 tcct the back when carrying wood or 

 other burdens ; sometimes called gi'gyii- 

 ka'-i. 



Gi'aka'-ite — "Back-hide," from gi'aka'-i. 

 and te; an oLl man who was abandoned 

 to die in the winter of 1859-60. 



gi'ilni — long, tall, as a tree, tipi pole, etc; 

 for things not usually erect (fence, 

 string, pencil, etc) and for man, the 

 common word is gyu'Tvi. 



gi'apa'-ingya — back (of the body). Cf. 

 go'mtii. 



Giatii' P'ada'ti — see Ai'konp'a, 3. 



Gi'-edal — "Big-meat;" a Kiowa warrior 

 killed in New Mexico in the winter of 

 1874-75. 



gi'gyiika'-i— see gi'aka'-i. 



gin'aga — very early in the morning. Cf. 

 gih'agya. 



giTiagya— night; abbreviated gi'Tide or 

 gi; piigo gi, one night. Cf. gin'aga. 



Gina's (Wichita) — see Tagu'i and Kiowa 

 Apache synonymy. 



ginato'gya — after midnight; from gi'Ua- 

 gga and togya. 



gi'nde — see gi'ntigya. 



gi'fi-kopa'-ingya — midnight, from gin'u- 

 gya and kopa' -ingya. 



go — (l)and; (2) see -*:o. 



go'be — wild horse. 



Go'be — "Wild-horse," a Florida prisoner 

 in 1875. 



Go'ho — " Kick," from gya'ango'p; a Mexi- 

 can captive and Florida prisoner in 

 1875. 



go'm-a'dal-ha'ngya — "back hair metal," 

 from go'mtii, ddal, and hii'ngya; a strap 

 or strip of red cloth ornamented with 

 silver disks, worn pendent behind 

 from the scalp-lock. Cf. d'dalkd'ngya. 



Gomii'te — see A'daltou-e'dal, 



go'mgyii — wind; the wind is blowing, 

 go'mde'. 



Go'mgyii dan ' wind canyon;" a can- 

 yon pass at the extreme head of Double- 

 mountain fork of Brazos river, Texas. 



go'mtii — back (of the body); in composi- 

 tion, gom. Cf. gi'apa'-ingya. 



OonVo'ti (ApacheJ — an Apache chief and 

 delegate to Washington in 1894, i-om- 

 monly known as Apache .John. 



gu'a-da'gya — the "travel song." sung by 

 .•I war party on setting out (see Winter 

 1862-63). The literal meaning may be 

 "wolf song," i.e., gu'i-da'gya. ".Just 

 before a war party seta out, its mem- 

 bers get together and sing the 'peel- 

 ing a stick song,' which is a wolf 

 song; also, if a person is hungry and 

 sings a wolf song he is likely to (ind 

 food. Men going on a hunting trij) 

 sing these songs, which bring them 

 good luck." — Grinnell, BInckfcel, ..'. 



gu'adal — red; it is practically a syno- 

 nym for "paint," red being the favor- 

 ite and most sai'red color with all 

 Indian tribes. It is red, it is painted, 

 gu'ddaldi'i'. Cf. gyngit'tiida'. 



Gu'ildal do'ha' — "red bluft;" a bluft' on 

 the north side of the South Canadian, 

 about the mouth of Mustang creek, 

 and a few miles al)ove Adobe Walls, 

 in the panhandle of Texas. A princi- 

 pal trail crossed there and a trading 

 post was established there by William 

 Bent in 1843-44. It was here that 

 Carson had his fight with the Kiowa 

 in 1864. Cf Sd'k'odal Gu'adal Do'ha'. 



(in'.'idal k'op — (1) "red mountain;" a 

 small mountain near Eagle-heart's 

 camp, upper Rainy-mountain creek, on 

 the reservation. (2) A mountain in 

 Colorado described as being north of 

 Arkansas river, a short distance above 

 the river of Colorado Springs, and on 

 an extreme northern head branch of 

 the Arkansas. This description would 

 seem to make it Pike's Peak, the moat 

 prominent peak of that region, but 

 the statement of direction may be 

 an error for Red mountain, southward 

 from the Arkansas, and southwest of 

 Pueblo. 



Gu'adal p'a—" red river;'' (1) the South 

 Canadian; (2) Big Wichita river, 

 Texas. 



Gu'i'idal-e'dal — see E'ofite. 



Gu't'idalka'pii — "paint (red) is there;" a 

 rocky bank eastward from Sc't-imki'a's 

 camp on Ada'n p'a, from which the 

 Kiowa procure a red mineral paint. 



Guadal-k'udal-dee p'a — "paint-is- there 

 creek ;" Clay creek, aaouthern tributary 

 of the Arkansaa, in Colorado ; so called 



