The Plains Apache (also Kiowa-Apache, Naʼisha, Naisha) are a Southern Athabaskan group that lived primarily on the plains of North America along the Kiowa. Southern Athabaskan (also Apachean) is a subfamily of Athabaskan languages spoken primarily in the North American Southwest (including Arizona The Kiowa (ˈkaɪoʊwə are a nation of American Indians who migrated from what is now Canada to their present location in Southwestern Oklahoma. Many currently live in Oklahoma. Oklahoma ( is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America.

Contents 1 Culture 2 Language 3 See also 4 Bibliography

Culture

Language

Southern Athabaskan language. Athabaskan or Athabascan (also Athapascan, Athapaskan, Athabasca Indians or Athapaskes) is the name of a large group of closely The Plains Apache language is the most divergent member of the subfamily. The Plains Apache language (or Kiowa Apache) is a Southern Athabaskan language spoken by the Plains Apache peoples living primarily in central These speakers probably left their northern homeland later than the other Southern Athabaskan peoples. The language is extremely endangered with perhaps only one native speaking elder. An endangered language is a Language that it is at risk of falling out of use generally because it has few surviving speakers

See also

• Apache
• Kiowa

Bibliography

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• Bittle, William. 1954. “The Peyote Ritual of the Kiowa Apache. ” Oklahoma Anthropological Society. 2: 69-79.
• ______. 1962. “The Manatidie: A Focus for Kiowa Apache Tribal Identity. ” Plains Anthropologist. 7(17): 152-163.
• ______. 1963. “Kiowa-Apache. ” In Studies in the Athapaskan Languages. (Ed. Hoijer, Harry). University of California Studies in Linguistics vol. 29. Berkeley: California UP. 76-101.
• ______. 1964. “Six Kiowa Apache Tales. ” Oklahoma Papers in Anthropology. 5:8-12.
• ______. 1971. “A Brief History of the Kiowa Apache. ” Oklahoma Papers in Anthropology. 12(1): 1-34.
• ______. 1979. “Kiowa Apache Raiding Behavior. ” Oklahoma Papers in Anthropology. 20(2): 33-47.
• Brant, Charles. 1949. “The cultural position of the Kiowa-Apache. ” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 5(1): 56-61.
• _______. 1950. “Peyotism among the Kiowa-Apache and Neighboring Tribes. ” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 6(2): 212-222.
• _______. 1953. “Kiowa-Apache Culture History: Some Further Observations. ” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 9(2): 195-202.
• _______. 1969. Jim Whitewolf: The Life of a Kiowa Apache. New York: Dover Publications.
• McAllister, J. Gilbert. 1937. “Kiowa-Apache Social Organization. ” In Social Anthropology of North American Tribes. (ed. Eggan, Fred). Chicago: Chicago UP. 99-169.
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