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KIOWA-ENGLISH GLOSSARY 



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te'dal — white clay; used Iby the Indians 



for paint; another form is te'li. 

 Tp'dal ton — "white-clay spring;" ;i water 

 hole on the Staked plain, so inllcd from 

 tile white clay found ther<'. There are 

 two wells on tlie Staked plain, known 

 as Tierra Blanca or Ojo Blanco, one in 

 Texas, the other in New Jlexico. 

 Te'gua(-go) — Pueblo; the name is a de- 

 rivative from Tegua or Tewa and 

 includes all the Pueblo Indians; the 

 Comanche form is Tewa. They were 

 formerly also called Be'dalpahe'uko, 

 "Beardless people" (cf. Be'dalpa'go) 

 and are sometimes designated asPo'fta- 

 ro, a Comanche corruption of "Pueblo." 

 Sign: Hair grasped behind with the 

 right hand, to indicate the Pueblo 

 stylo of bunching it. 

 Tehii'neko, Teh:i'no — Texans, singular 

 TMi'nek'i, from tlie Spanish Tejano. 

 The Kiowa and associated tribes always 

 regarded the Texans as a distinct peo- 

 ple from the T'o-t'a'ka'-i, or Americans, 

 of Kansas and the north. 

 Teh-toot-sah — see Doha'san. 

 te'li — see te'dal. 

 tem — hone; plural ton. 

 ten — heart. 



Te'n-iit'a'nto— "Little-heart," from ten, 

 fan, and te; a Kiowa warrior killed by 

 the Pawnee in 1851. 

 te'nbe — see a'dalto'yi. 

 Te'nbe k'op, or Te'nbei'a k' op— "Wild- 

 sheep mountaiu,'.' i. e., "TeTibeyu'i 

 mountain," because the Te'nbeyn'i, 

 (I. v., used to dance there at a spring 

 near the river; a mountaiu on the east 

 side of North fork, just below Elk 

 creek, on the reservation ; sometimes in- 

 correctly called Gnbo'ddU k'op, "Sheep 

 (or goat) mountain." 

 Te'nbeyu'i — see A'dalto'yiii. 

 t'ene' — bird ; on account of a death a few 

 years ago the word (ju'dto is now used 

 instead. 

 T'ene'-ango'pte— " Kicking-bird," usu- 

 ally abbreviated to Jngo'ptc, from t'ene', 

 <l!ia'anffo'p,audte: (1) A Kiowa warrior 

 about 1843. (2) A noted chief who 

 died in 1875; upon the treaty of 1867 

 his name appears as Ton-a-en-ko, "Kick- 

 ing Eagle." 

 T'cne'-badai' — "Bird-appearing;" a Kio- 

 wa warrior noted for his good looks, 

 killed by the Caddo in 1860. 

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T'ene'-ko'nky a— "Black-bird;" a Kiowa 

 signer of the treaty of 1837, where the 

 name appears as "Ta-ne-eougais, the 

 Sea Gull." 

 T'eue'pi'abi — "Hummingbird;" a Kiowa 

 warrior and Florida prisoner in 1875, 

 still living. The ordinary word for 

 Imunningbird is mansa-t'eiie', " thumb- 

 bird." 

 T'ene'-tai'de — "Bird-chief," from t'ene' 

 and. -taide; a Kiowa warrior, still liv- 

 ing; also called Pa' to', a word of un- 

 known meaning. 

 T'ene'-ze'pte— " Bird-bow" ( ?) from fenc', 

 zepko, and te; a Kiowa warrior shot Ijy 

 Sun-boy in 1872. The name might pos- 

 sibly mean "Bird-teat." 

 Te'n-pi'iik'ia—" Heart-eater," from tni, 

 piii, and k'ia ; a noted Kiowa warrior 

 and medicine-man, rival of Anso'te and 

 father of Se't-t'a'n, and accidentally 

 killed in 1853. He took his name from 

 the fact that his "medicine" was to eat 

 a small piece of an enemy's heart every 

 time he killed one. The same thing 

 was done by several other Kiowa war- 

 riors under certain circumstances, the 

 only approach to cannibalism in the 

 tribe. A man now living is called 

 Te'npi'dte, "Heart-eater," from ten, piii, 

 and tc. 

 tep — the root of a verb signifying "to 

 come out," "to migrate." Cf. toiltep, 

 Te'pdu', Tepi/au 2>'a. 

 Te'pdiV — Kiowa; see Kiowa syncmymy. 

 t'epga— meat from the calf of the leg 

 of the buffalo, etc; in composition, 

 t'ej). 

 Te'pgan P'a — "Goose-migrating moon," 

 from gait, tep, and ^;'a; a Kiowa moon 

 or month, including parts of November 

 and December; also called BonpU P'a, 

 " Sweat-house moou." 

 Tepk'i'iigo — Kiowa; see Kiowa syn- 

 onymy. 

 Tep-pe-navon — see Ti'pinaro'n. 

 Tluika'-ltini'iia (Arapaho), or Tha'ka'-i- 

 ta'n — the Kiow.a-Apache; see Kiowa 

 Apache synonymy. 

 TiL-LA-KA— see Ti'l-lakaV. 

 Ti'l-lakai' (Apache)— "White-horn;" an 

 Apache signer of the treaty of 1867, 

 upon which his name appears as "Til- 

 laka. White Horn." 

 Ti'p ho'novlt (Comanche) — see Tso p'a 

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