Word: kaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mount Borah was "discovered" by U. S. Geologist Lee Morrison of Kaw, Okla., who measured its heights but inadvertently departed without giving it a name. Last week, its official name in Washington was "Beauty Triangulation Point...
Joining Indian tribes is good politics in the U. S. President Coolidge joined the Sioux last year. This year the whole G. 0. P. affiliated itself with the Kaw & Osage tribes through Nominee Curtis. Notable among individual joinings this season was an event last week in Wisconsin. Sol Levitan, Jew, the State Treasurer, became Tchay-Ska-Kah, or Der Weisser Bock, or White Deer, a chief in the Winnebago tribe...
Twelve swart women wrapped in garish blankets squatted around a picnic ground on the bank of the Arkansas River near Kaw, Okla. Five old men the color of tanbark squatted in the middle of the clearing, balancing a broad tom-tom on their crossed feet...
...went the tom-tom. The squaws rocked on their haunches, crooning. Out leaped an Osage brave in a stamping dance. Other braves followed, a shuffling, foot-thumping, swaying line. One of the dancers was covered with small mirrors. Now and then some one whooped. Emmet Thompson, a young Kaw who has made millions in oil, directed the proceedings. He and most of the 2,000 other Kaws, Pawnees, Otos and Osages present had come in first-class automobiles...
When the dance?a "Kaw Special"? was over, there were more speeches. Mrs. Elizabeth Curtis Colvin, sister of "Cousin Charley," stammered: "It isn't my fault, but I want you to know that I?that we? are all very proud of Charley...