Kiowa Apachee Indian Tribe
Location
Kiowa Apache. The name is derived from that of the Kiowa and from the
circumstance that they spoke a dialect related to those of the
better-known Apache tribes, though they had no other connection with them.
Also called:
Bad-hearts, by Long (1823). (See Kaskaias.)
Cancey or Kantsi, meaning "liars," applied by the Caddo to all Apache of
the Plains, but oftenest to the Lipan.
Essequeta, a name given by the Kiowa and Comanche to the
Mescalero Apache,
sometimes, but improperly, applied to this tribe.
Gáta'ka, Pawnee name.
Gǐnä's, Wichita name.
Gû'ta'k, Omaha and Ponca name.
K'á-pätop, Kiowa name, meaning "knife whetters."
Kaskaias, possibly intended for this tribe, translated "bad hearts."
Kǐsínahǐs, Kichai name.
Mûtsíănă-täníu, Cheyenne name, meaning "whetstone people."
Nadíisha-déna, own name, meaning "our people."
Pacer band of Apache, H. R. Doe. Prairie Apaches, common name.
Sádalsómte-k'íägo, Kiowa name, meaning "weasel people."
Tâ'gugála, Jemez
name for Apache tribes including Kiowa Apache.
Tagúi, an old Kiowa name.
Tágukerish, Pecos name for all Apache.
Tashǐn, Comanche name for all Apache.
Tha`ká-hinĕ'na, Arapaho name, meaning "saw-fiddle man."
Yabipais Natagé, Garcés Diary (1776).
Connections
The Kiowa Apache belonged to the
Athapascan linguistic family, their nearest relatives being the
Jicarilla and
Lipan (Hoijer).
Location
They have been associated with
the Kiowa from the earliest traditional period. (See also Colorado,
New Mexico,
Oklahoma, and
Wyoming.)
History
The first historical mention of
the Kiowa Apache is by La Salle in 1681 or 1682, who calls then Gattacka, the term by which they are known
to the Pawnee. As intimated above, their history was in later times the
same as that of the Kiowa, and they occupied a definite place in the Kiowa
camp circle. For 2 years only, 1865-67, they were at their own request
detached from the Kiowa and adjoined to the Cheyenne and Arapaho, on
account of the unfriendly attitude of the
Kiowa toward the Whites.
Population
Mooney (1928) gives an estimate
of 300 Kiowa Apache as of 1780, adopting the estimate made by Lewis and Clark in
1805. In 1891 their population was 325, but like the associated tribes they
suffered heavily from measles in 1892 and in 1905 there were only 155 left. The
census of 1910 returned 139, that of 1930, 184, and in 1937 they appear to have
increased to 340 but other Apache may be included.
Connection in which they have become noted
The Kiowa Apache are remarkable
merely as an example of a tribe incorporated into the social organism of another
tribe of entirely alien speech and origin Miami. In 1832 the Miami subdivisions known as
Piankashaw and
Wea were
assigned lands along with the
Illinois in Eastern Kansas. In 1840 the rest
of the Miami were granted lands in the immediate neighborhood but just
south, and all but one band removed there from Indiana. In 1854 they ceded
part of this territory and in 1867 accompanied the Illinois to the present
Oklahoma. (See Indiana.)
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Notes About the Book:
Source: The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton, 1953, Bureau of
American Ethnology, Bulletin 145, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC.
Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd. Minimal editing
has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual
output.
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