ARAPAHO SUN-DANCE LODGE, 1893.
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY— SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LXXI
PHOTO BY JACKSON, 1872.
PACER (PESO), FORMER HEAD-CHIEF OF THE KIOWA APACHE.
THE NADIISHA-DENA OR KIOWA APACHE
TRIBAL SYNONYMY
- Apaches—Agent Thomas Fitzpatrick, Ind. Report, 52, 1850. This has been their official popular name for the last fifty years.
- Apaches of Arkansas river—Agent J. W. Whitfield, Report, 255, 1855.
- Apaches of the Plains—Pope, 1854, in Pacific Railroad Survey, 17, 1855.
- Kiowa Apaches—Clark, Indian Sign Language, 33, 1885.
- Ésikwíta—Properly the name of the Mescalero Apache, but in various forms—Essequeta, etc—has sometimes been incorrectly applied to the Kiowa Apache.
- Gáta`ka—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. So called by the Pawnee.
- Ca´takâ—Lewis, Report, 1805, in Mess. from the President communicating discoveries by Lewis and Clark, etc, 38, 1806.
- Cataha—Lewis, Travels, 15, 1809 (misprint).
- Cattako—Lewis and Clark, Discoveries, 23, 1806.
- Cuttako—American State Papers, IV, 710, 1832.
- Gataea (for Gataca)—La Salle, 1682, in Margry, Découvertes, II, 168, 1877.
- Gataka—Harris, Coll. Voy. and Travels, I, map, 685, 1705.
- Gattacka—La Salle, 1682, in Margry, Découvertes, II. 201, 1877.
- Gû´ta`k—La Flesche, Omaha and Ponca name, probably derived from the Pawnee.
- Ka-ta-ka—Kioway, Kataka, and Towakaro treaty; ratified 1838.
- Kattekas—French, Hist. Colls. of Louisiana, new series, I, 153, note, 1869.
- Quataquois—La Harpe, 1719, in Margry, Découvertes, VI, 289.
- Quataquon—Beaurain, 1719, ibid.
- Tha`ká-hinĕ´na—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Arapaho names, derived from Gáta`ka and hinĕ´na, "people," or itâ´n, "tribe."
- Tha`ká-itän—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Arapaho names, derived from Gáta`ka and hinĕ´na, "people," or itâ´n, "tribe."
- Gĭnä's—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Wichita name.
- Kántsi—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Caddo collective name for the Apache tribes, signifying "liars;" hence Cancy, etc.
- K`á-pätop—A generic Kiowa name for several tribes cognate with the Apache, including Apache proper, Mescalero, Lipan, and Kiowa Apache. It signifies "knife-whetters," or "whetstone people." The name became obsolete about six years ago in consequence of the death of a Kiowa chief named K`á-pä'te.
- Kĭsínăhĭs—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Kichai name.
- Mûtsiănă-täníu—Cheyenne name, signifying "whetstone people."
- Nadíisha-déna—The name used by themselves, signifying "our people" or "people of our kind;" singular, Ná-isha. Déna, "people," is the word which, in the various dialectal forms of dina, tĭné, dĭ'nĕ, tûne, nde, etc, enters into so many tribal names of the Athapascan stock.
- Prairie Apache—Whitfield in Rept. Comr. of Ind. Aff., 297, 1854.
- Sádalsómte-k`íägo—Another Kiowa name for the Kiowa Apache, signifying "weasel people."
- Semät—The name by which the Kiowa call them, signifying "thieves;" the name which designates this tribe alone, superseded a few years ago the more general term K á-pä´top.
- Tagúi—The old Kiowa name for the Apache tribes generally, superseded for a time by K á-pä´top, but now again in use. Cf T'a`ká-i, "white man."
- Tâ´gugála—Hodge, Pueblo MS. Notes, 1895. The Jemez name for the Apache tribes, including the Kiowa Apache.
- Tágukerésh—Hodge, Pueblo MS. Notes, 1895. The Pecos name for the Apache tribes, including the Kiowa Apache.
- Tashĭn—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Comanche generic name for the Apache tribes.