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

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

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

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

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

Texas Panhandle
Western Oklahoma
treatyInvolvement Medicine Lodge Treaty
UNESCOLanguageStatus endangered (Plains Apache language)
usedAnimal American bison
linked to: Bison 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 Plains Apache
linked to: Kiowa Apache
Kiowa Apache alsoKnownAs Plains Apache
linked to: Kiowa Apache