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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



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erviition. lieiiig t]ii' imly Inke iu thr 

 region, it is simply called "the lake." 



Setso' rdal — "liig lake;" a large lake 

 in Coahnila iir Chihuahua, Mexico, de- 

 .seribcd as having an island njiou which 

 was a Jlexican fort 



Se't ta'dal—' 'Lean-bear." (l)AKiowa(f) 

 warrior in 1864-65. (2) A Kiowa Apa- 

 che chief and signer of the treaty of 

 1867, being then the head chief of the 

 tribe. His proper Apache name was 

 Gii'uTiieka'na, of which Se't-ta'dal is the 

 Kiowa rendering. It appears on the 

 treaty as " Kou-zhon-ta-co, Poor Hear." 

 He was thi^ father of White-man, pres- 

 ent hc'ad chief of the Apache. 



Se't-t'a'inti — " White-bear ; " a noted Ki- 

 owa chief and signer of the treaty of 

 180', who committed suicide in prisim 

 in 1878. He was commonly known as 

 Satanta; other forms are Satana and 

 S<'e-ti-toh. In boyhood he was called 

 Gii'atofi-bidn, " Bigrlbs," aud since the 

 death, iu 1894, of his son, who inherited 

 tlie father's name, this last name only 

 is used iu referring to him. 



Set-t'al'nte-T'a'ka -imai'mo-e''paga'ni-de 

 p'a — -'river where Set-t'ai'nte brought 

 the white women;" Satanta creek, 

 alias North or Kiowa creek, a northern 

 tributary of Cimarron river iu Coman- 

 che county, Kansas; so called because 

 Set-t'ai'nte brought there some white 

 women and children captured in Texas 

 about thirty years ago. Doha'siin died 

 at its junctiou with the Cimarron. 



Se't-t'an — "Little-bear;" a Kiowa warrior 

 and author of the principal calendar 

 here published. 



Slii sliinii'wiit-tsi'tiini'u (Cheyenne) — the 

 Comanche (see Kiowa synonymy). 



Si'<ichi'nika (Comanche; — " Standi ng- 

 hoad-feather;" a Comanche signer of 

 the treaty of 1867, where the name 

 appeal's as "Cear-ehi-neka." 



SijMPOijroDi-K — see Si-'iipo-gti'iulal. 



Sindi — a mythic trickster and wonder- 

 worker of the Kiowa. 



Si'ndiyu'i — see Kontii'hjui. 



SiT-PAU-GA — see Se'lpii'ijo. 



so'le — see YWpiihe'. 



So'le p'a — "soldier creek;" Cache creek. 

 near Fort Sill, on the reservation. 

 Sometimes called T>io''l;ada'hu So'lv p'a, 

 •' Mediciue-blutf Soldier creek." 



Konila — i-ulibing; i/yiiio' iimo, I whet; </f- 

 so'nmo, I rub myself ; ilega'mu, I anoint, 

 son — grass. 



So'ndo'ta — Shoshoui ; literally, ''grass 

 houses," from sou an<l do', s.aid to refer 

 to a fonner custom of weaving tipis or 

 wikiui)s of rushes; also called So'xoiii. 

 Tkihalsigx; Index linger thrust for- 

 ward with a serpeutine movement, fol- 

 lowed by sign for "man;" commonly 

 interjireted "Snake people," but per- 

 haps originally designed to indicate 

 the nuxnner of weaving the rushes. 

 C'f. (iijaVko. 

 So'npata — see A'se'r/jja. 

 Son-t'ain p'a — "white grass creek;" a 

 branch of White ri\er of Brazos river, 

 Texas, 

 So'soni — see So'ndo'ta. 



Soto — Augnste Chouteau, the tirst trader 

 regularly established iu the Kiowa 

 country, about 1835, 

 t'a — (1) Ear; singular, t'-a ; dual, t'ati; 

 plural, t'aga. (2) Antelope; plural, 

 t'a'aedul. T'ap, the generic word for 

 deer, antelope, etc, is sometimes used 

 specifically for antelope. Cf, liiai''yiiaii 

 and laii'ijia. 

 tii — eye; dnal, tiili; plural, M'/". 

 fS— first light ( ?) Cf. ki'a Hi. 

 ta'-ii — the elm ( Uhnns americana) ; liter- 

 ally, "saddle wood," from ta'tjijii and 

 ('(', because used by the Indians to make 

 saddle trees; also called ija'dal-ii, 

 "bnfl'alo wood," because the buft'alo 

 liked to stand under its shade. 

 Ta'bhid'niikd (Comanche) — "Hears- (or 

 understands-) the-sun;'' a noted Co- 

 manche chief, who died in 1892, By 

 the Kiowa he was called I'ai'-la'ya, an 

 exact rendering of his Comanche 

 name. 

 T'a -bo'dal — "Spoiled-ear;" the Kiowa 

 call by this name an earless Xavalio 

 killed by them in the winter of 

 1867-68. Bodal seems to refer to "cut 

 off," distinct fromj)'o(?tt/to. Cf. ka'bodal. 

 ta'dal — lean (adjective), 

 tii'daldil — hole. 

 Ta'dalk'i'a — "Lean-man;" agent P, B. 



Hunt, 1878-1885, 

 ta'dalkop — smallpox; literally, "kole 



sickness," from tii'daldd and kop. 

 Tii'dalkop p'a — "smallpox creek;" 

 Mule creek, a tributarv of iledicine- 



