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Kaw en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kɔː/

Meanings

  1. 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

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Kaws Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

Kaw City

Synonyms

Kansa

Translations (1)

unm Kansia (Native American tribesmember)