Kiowa Apache

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The Kiowa Apache are a small Southern Athabaskan-speaking Native American group historically allied with the Kiowa on the Southern Plains, known for their nomadic buffalo-hunting culture.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Plains Apache 2
Kiowa Apache canonical 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains
Native American people
Southern Athabaskan people
alliedWith Kiowa people
surface form: Kiowa
alsoKnownAs Nesha
surface form: Naʼisha

Naʼishandine
Kiowa Apache
surface form: Plains Apache
conflictedWith United States Army
settler populations
culturalArea Plains culture area
surface form: Great Plains culture area
culturalPractice Sun Dance participation (historically with Kiowa and Comanche)
culturalRelation Comanche
Kiowa people
surface form: Kiowa
currentPrimaryLocation Oklahoma
ethnicGroupOf United States of America
surface form: United States
federallyRecognizedTribe Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
governingBody Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
historicallyAlliedWith Comanche
Plains culture area
surface form: Southern Plains tribes
historicalRegion Southern Plains
languageFamily Southern Athabaskan
surface form: Southern Athabaskan languages
linguisticRelation Apachean peoples
Chiricahua Apache
Jicarilla Apache
Lipan Apache
Mescalero Apache
Navajo language
surface form: Navajo

Western Apache
populationCharacteristic small in number relative to other Apache groups
region Southern Great Plains in North America
southwestern United States
surface form: Southwestern United States
religion Christianity
traditional Indigenous beliefs
reservationLocation Oklahoma
traditionalEconomy horse culture
traditionalHousing tipis
traditionalLanguage Lipan Apache language
surface form: Plains Apache language
traditionalMobility nomadic
traditionalSubsistence gathering wild plant foods
nomadic buffalo hunting
traditionalTerritory Oklahoma
Southern Plains
surface form: Southern Great Plains

Texas Panhandle
Western Oklahoma
treatyInvolvement Treaty of Medicine Lodge (1867)
surface form: Medicine Lodge Treaty
UNESCOLanguageStatus endangered (Plains Apache language)
usedAnimal Bison bison
surface form: American bison

horse

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Apache tribes hasPart Kiowa Apache
Lipan Apache relatedEthnicity Kiowa Apache
this entity surface form: Plains Apache
Kiowa Apache alsoKnownAs Kiowa Apache
this entity surface form: Plains Apache