Kaw en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /kɔː/
Meanings
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A member of a particular Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas.
In the winter of 1866 the Cheyennes stole forty-two horses from a Kaw hunting party on the upper Arkansas, and following a murder of a Kaw herder at a buffalo camp near Fort Zarah a year later, the Kaws attacked a Cheyenne encampment[.]
2004, R. David Edmunds, The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900, →ISBN, page 20:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaws | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (1)
unm Kansia (Native American tribesmember)