. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] KI-ON-TWOG-KV KIOWA 699 1«;70, t;3,1858. Saint Stephen.—N. Y. l)of>. Col. , Ill, 251, 1853. Thihero.—Conover, op. cit. Tich- ero.—Ibid. Tiohero.—.les. Rel. for 1669, 14, 1858. Ki-on-twog-ky. See Cortiplanfer. Kiota. Mentioned iii connection with the Shasta and several small Athapascan tribes of s. Oregon as being hostile to white settlers in 1854. They numbered only 8 and their name was po.'ssibly that of their leader.—Ambro.'^e in H. K. Doc. 93, 34th Cong., 1st sess., 90, 1856. Kiowa (from Gu^-l-gwa, or Kd'-i-girh, 'principal people,' their own n
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] KI-ON-TWOG-KV KIOWA 699 1«;70, t;3,1858. Saint Stephen.—N. Y. l)of>. Col. , Ill, 251, 1853. Thihero.—Conover, op. cit. Tich- ero.—Ibid. Tiohero.—.les. Rel. for 1669, 14, 1858. Ki-on-twog-ky. See Cortiplanfer. Kiota. Mentioned iii connection with the Shasta and several small Athapascan tribes of s. Oregon as being hostile to white settlers in 1854. They numbered only 8 and their name was po.'ssibly that of their leader.—Ambro.'^e in H. K. Doc. 93, 34th Cong., 1st sess., 90, 1856. Kiowa (from Gu^-l-gwa, or Kd'-i-girh, 'principal people,' their own name). A tribe at one time residing abont the upper Yellowstone and Missouri, but better. known as centering about the upper Ar- kansas and Canadian in Colorado and Ok- lahoma, and constituting, so far as jjresent knowledge goes, adistinctlinguisticstock. They are noticed in, Spanish records as early, at least, as 1732. Their oldest tra- dition, which agrees with the concurrent testimony of the Shoshoni and Arapaho, locates them about the junction of Jeffer- son, Madison, and Gallatin forks, at the extreme head of Missouri r., in the neigh- borhood of the present Virginia City, Mont. They afterward moved down from the mountains and formed an alliance with the Crows, with whom they have since continued on friendly terms. From here they drifted southward along tlie base of the mountams, driven by the Cheyenne and Arapaho, with whom they finally made peace about 1840, after which they commonly acted in concert with the latter tribes. The Sioux clami to have driven them out of the Black hills, and in 1805 they were reported by Lewis and Clark as living on the North Platte. According to the Kiowa account, when they first reached Arkansas r. they found theirpas- sage opposed by the Comanche, who claimed all the country to the s. A war followed, but peace was finally concluded, when the Kiowa crossed over to thes. side of the Arkansas and formed a confedera- tion with the Co
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