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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Kiowa"”.
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Kiowa-Tanoan: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study
… system and of the pronominal system of Proto-Kiowa-Tanoan, the theoretized ancestor of a family of seven languages located in the Pueblo Southwest and Great Plains. The modern constituent members of the family are Kiowa, Rio Grande Tewa, Arizona Tewa, Picuris Northern Tiwa, Taos Northern Tiwa, …
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"Songs to Soothe a Mother": Intertextuality and Intertribalism in Kiowa War Mother Songs
… songs were first composed for the women of the Kiowa War Mothers Chapter 18 organization during World War II by two main composers, Lewis Toyebo and James “Jimmy A” Anquoe. These songs initially functioned to provide encouragement for both the servicemen deploying overseas and their mothers, and …
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Elements of number theory
… based noun classification and agreement in Kiowa, an indigenous, endangered language of Oklahoma. The central claim is that Universal Grammar provides three number features, concerned with unithood, existence of homogeneous subsets, and properties of those subsets. The features are used to …
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KIT CARSON'S LAST FIGHT: THE ADOBE WALLS CAMPAIGN OF 1864
… hundred men on a punitive campaign against the Kiowa and Comanche Indians of the high plains. The resulting battle was one of the largest in the history of North American Indian Wars. Yet this conflict has been relegated to historical obscurity. In this paper, I examine why Kit Carson's 1864 …
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Indigenous Film as a Storytelling Practice
… audiences. Through close analysis of Inuit, Kiowa, Yolngu, Aymara, and Kurdish case studies, attention is given to the interdependence of adaptation, collaborative production, and distribution infrastructures in sustaining narrative legitimacy. Formal strategies—durational pacing, repetition, …
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""They Asked for Traders Amongst Them": Buffalo Robes, the Santa Fe Trade, and Social Change on the South Plains 1817-1858”
This dissertation focuses on the South Plains during the Mexican period and investigates how the Santa Fe trade network increased interest in the region from all sides even as the people who did the actual trading played tribes and nations off each other in pursuit of profits and advantages. …