KIOWA-ENGLISH GLOSSARY 



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tso"ka and aka'n; a point on the Boiith 

 side of the North forli of Red river 

 above the .junction of Elm forlc, at 

 K' o'h-aka' n mountain, q. v., in Greer 

 county, Okhihoma. 



Tso'k'o'dalte — "Stone - necklace," from 

 tso, k'o'dalpii,a,nA te; a Kiowa girl who 

 died in 1845. The full form would be 

 Tso'k'o'dalpil'te. Cf. Ak'o'dalte, Tebo'- 

 dalte. 



Tso'lai' — Fourth of July; the Kiowa 

 think this is the name of the day in- 

 stead of the mouth. On account of the 

 Indian races encouraged by the traders 

 and officers ou this occasion, it i.s also 

 known as Taa'nkia-ki'ada, "race day." 



Tso'uboho'n — "Dowu-feather-cap," from 

 taonkija and boho'n ; an early head chief 

 of thi' Kiowa. 



tso'uda — light-haired. Cf. boin. 



tso'nkya — down feathers; in cl ''posi- 

 tion, tsoil. 



TsoTi-t'a'ka'-i — light-haired, -• blontl 

 Mexicans, from taoi'ida and T'dka'-i; 

 the Mexicans about Taredo, on the 

 lower Kio Grande. 



tso'pain — adobe; literally, "dust rock,'' 

 or "earth rook," from tso and pain. 



Tso'paiii Do' — "adobe house;" Bent'.s 

 fort, ou Arkausas river, in Colorado. 

 Originally built of adobe, by William 

 Bent, the noted trader for the Chey- 

 enne, on the north bank of the Arkan- 

 .sas, 15 miles above the junction of the 

 Purgatoire, ami about halfway be- 

 tween the present La Junta aud Las 

 Animas. It was abandoned bj- him 

 about 1849. In 1860 Fort Wise, after- 

 ward called Fort Lyon, was estab- 

 lished near the same site, and was 

 called by the same name among the 

 Kiowa until the removal of Fort Lyon 

 farther up the river in 1867. (See list 

 of posts, etc, page 382.) 



tsoq! (Comanche) — that! A Comanche 

 word commonly used by Comanche, 

 Kiowa, and Apache in the do'a' game. 



Tso'sa' p'a — " rock river;" Yel- 

 lowstone and upper Missouri river ; ety- 

 mology doubtful; tso is rock or stone, 

 and 8« is said to be connected with 

 sii'lop, pipe, but may possibly be from 

 some obsolete word for yellow, whence 

 "Yellowstone." According to Clark, 

 the Indians call this stream "Elk 



river," from its head to Powder river, 

 or only to Rosebud river, while, below 

 that they call it and the Missouri the 

 "Muddy, or Big Muddy river." 



Tso'-t'ai'n p'a — "white-rock river;" a 

 creek, perhaps Wan<lerer creek, de- 

 scribed as asoutliern tributary of North 

 fork, above Doau's, in Greer county, 

 Oklahoma. 



Tso't'ai'uto'uda'ti — "spring where there 

 is rock above," from tso, iaide, tontep, 

 and dati; Cedar spring, on Fort Sill 

 road, about 4 miles southward from 

 Anadarko. 



Tso'-'t'a'ka'-i or Tso'-'t'a'ka'-i-dombe — 

 "rock -white-man (country);" the 

 Mexicans and their country about 

 Silver City, southwestern New Mexico. 

 The Kiowa generally kept ou friendly 

 terms with them and traded with them 

 for silver ornaments. The name may 

 have included also the Chihuahua 

 mountain region. Cf. E'o'p-t'dka'-i, 

 ToiVic'n-t'dka'-i, A'-l'a'ka'-i, To-t'a'ka'-i. 



■l'rM-:-AHT-OH--i'E— "Tunk-aht-oh-ye, the 

 rhiiailerer;" the nameof a Kiowa boy, 

 brother of Gunpii'udamii, as given by 

 Catlin, who painted his picture in 

 1834. The form can not be identified. 



iiaarC'rahu, (Pawnee) — a Pawnee moon or 

 month (seepage 371). 



Wa'bana'ki — Delaware, from one of their 

 own names, Wa'bana'iiki; there is a 

 band of about 100 on the Wichita 

 reservation. 



Wasa'si — see E'apWto. 



Wa-toh-konk — see Gu'ato-ko'nkya. 



Wi'lapaha'tu (Sioux aud Cheyenne) — 

 the Kiowa (see Kiowa synonymy). 



wo'ha' — cow ; a j argon word used between 

 Indians and whites and supposed by 

 the Indians to be the English name, 

 from the fact of having heard it used 

 so frequently in the form of " whoa 

 haw!" by the early emigrants and 

 Santa ¥6 traders iu driving their ox 

 teams. The proper Kiowa word is 

 tsenho. 



Woha'te — "Cow;" a Kiowa warrior aud 

 Florida prisoner in 1875. 



TVo'ifdo'ish (Cheyenne) — see A''piita'te. 



Wux-i'AN-TO-MEE— see Gunpa'ndama. 



yii'daldii — hill; there is no fixed distinc- 

 tion between this word aud k'op, moun- 

 tain, but the latter is generally under- 



