How to Use Kiowa in a Sentence

Kiowa

noun
  • Start the walk at the Lake Murray trailhead, located at 5540 Kiowa Drive.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Phillips, who is Kiowa, said the dance was created as a way to honor those who kept watch at night as the tribe was traveling south from Canada.
    Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
  • His father, of Kiowa descent, was a painter, and his mother, whose background was English, French and Cherokee, was a writer.
    Olesia Plokhii, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
  • One 86-year-old Kiowa recounted being sodomized by another student at age 10.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • His Cherokee grandmother urges the family to move across the state to find security; his dying grandfather hopes to reunite him with his heritage through traditional gourd dances; his Kiowa cousin reminds him that he’s connected to an ancestral past.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 5 June 2023
  • In the highest elevation areas south of Kiowa, another foot of snow accumulation is possible.
    Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • His explorations of identity and self-definition, of the importance of the oral tradition in literature, and of his Kiowa heritage were interwoven with reverent evocations of landscape in passages of soaring lyrical prose.
    John Motyka, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024

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