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- noun Plural form of
Kioway .
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Examples
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The Kioways are a much finer looking race of men, than either the Camanchees or
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841
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Remaining with them several years, she eventually accompanied a party of Kioways (allies of the Comanche) to Bent's Fort on the Arkansa.
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"Well, them fellers comin 'in had a bargain with a passel of Kioways to git you plenty if they missed you themselves; to clinch their bargain they give 'em a pore little Hopi Injun girl they'd brung along with a lot of other Mexicans and squaws."
Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899
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Kioways round him, he was here and there and on every side of the camp at the same moment, firing very rapidly and never throwing a shot away.
Dick Onslow Among the Redskins William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Kioways, and Wicos, are all so distinctly different in their languages, as to appear in that respect as total strangers to each other.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841
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Kioways and Wicos, the whole country on the head waters of the Red River, and quite into and through the southern part of the Rocky Mountains.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841
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Tunk-aht-oh-ye (The Thunderer), a boy; who are brother and sister, are two Kioways who were purchased from the Osages, to be taken to their tribe by the dragoons.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841
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The Pawnee Picts, Kioways, and Wicos are the subjects that I am most closely scanning at this moment, and I have materials enough around me.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841
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And during that time, continual parties of the Pawnee Picts and Kioways have come up; and also Camanchees, from other-villages, to get a look at us, and many of them are volunteering to go in with us to the frontier.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841
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The head chief of the Kioways, whose name is The-toot-sah we found to be
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841
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