The Nadiisha-Dena or Kiowa Apache
Tribal synonymy
Apaches—Agent Thomas Fitzpatrick, Ind. Report, 52, 1850. This has been their official popular name for the last fifty years.
Apaches of Arkansas river—Agent J. W. Whitfield, Report, 255, 1855.
Apaches of the Plains—Pope, 1854, in Pacific Railroad Survey, 17, 1855.
Kiowa Apaches—Clark, Indian Sign Language, 33, 1885.
Ésikwíta—Properly the name of the Mescalero Apache, but in various forms—Essequeta, etc—has sometimes been incorrectly applied to the Kiowa Apache.
Gáta`ka—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. So called by the Pawnee.
Ca´takâ—Lewis, Report, 1805, in Mess. from the President communicating discoveries by Lewis and Clark, etc, 38, 1806.
Cataha—Lewis, Travels, 15, 1809 (misprint).
Cattako—Lewis and Clark, Discoveries, 23, 1806.
Cuttako—American State Papers, IV, 710, 1832.
Gataea (for Gataca)—La Salle, 1682, in Margry, Découvertes, II, 168, 1877.
Gataka—Harris, Coll. Voy. and Travels, I, map, 685, 1705.
Gattacka—La Salle, 1682, in Margry, Découvertes, II. 201, 1877.
Gû´ta`k—La Flesche, Omaha and Ponca name, probably derived from the Pawnee.
Ka-ta-ka—Kioway, Kataka, and Towakaro treaty; ratified 1838.
Kattekas—French, Hist. Colls. of Louisiana, new series, I, 153, note, 1869.
Quataquois—La Harpe, 1719, in Margry, Découvertes, VI, 289.
Quataquon—Beaurain, 1719, ibid.
Tha`ká-hinĕ´na—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Arapaho names, derived from Gáta`ka and hinĕ´na, “people,” or itâ´n, “tribe.”
Tha`ká-itän—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Arapaho names, derived from Gáta`ka and hinĕ´na, “people,” or itâ´n, “tribe.”
Gĭnä’s—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Wichita name.
Kántsi—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Caddo collective name for the Apache tribes, signifying “liars;” hence Cancy, etc.
K`á-pätop—A generic Kiowa name for several tribes cognate with the Apache, including Apache proper, Mescalero, Lipan, and Kiowa Apache. It signifies “knife-whetters,” or “whetstone people.” The name became obsolete about six years ago in consequence of the death of a Kiowa chief named K`á-pä’te.
Kĭsínăhĭs—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Kichai name.
Mûtsiănă-täníu—Cheyenne name, signifying “whetstone people.”
Nadíisha-déna—The name used by themselves, signifying “our people” or “people of our kind;” singular, Ná-isha. Déna, “people,” is the word which, in the various dialectal forms of dina, tĭné, dĭ’nĕ, tûne, nde, etc, enters into so many tribal names of the Athapascan stock.
Prairie Apache—Whitfield in Rept. Comr. of Ind. Aff., 297, 1854.
Sádalsómte-k`íägo—Another Kiowa name for the Kiowa Apache, signifying “weasel people.”
Semät—The name by which the Kiowa call them, signifying “thieves;” the name which designates this tribe alone, superseded a few years ago the more general term K á-pä´top.
Tagúi—The old Kiowa name for the Apache tribes generally, superseded for a time by K á-pä´top, but now again in use. Cf T’a`ká-i, “white man.”
Tâ´gugála—Hodge, Pueblo MS. Notes, 1895. The Jemez name for the Apache tribes, including the Kiowa Apache.
Tágukerésh—Hodge, Pueblo MS. Notes, 1895. The Pecos name for the Apache tribes, including the Kiowa Apache.
Tashĭn—Mooney, Misc. Ind. MS. Comanche generic name for the Apache tribes.