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Tonkawa, n. (a.)|ˈtɒŋkəwə|
[ad. Sp. tancagueis, tancahues, etc., prob. ad. Wichita (Waco dial.) tonkawéya, said to mean ‘they all stay together’.]
a. (A member of) an Indian people of Texas.
b. The language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1806J. Sibley in Message from President of U.S., communicating Discoveries made in exploring the Missouri by Captains Lewis & Clark 74 Tankaways..have no land,..but are always moving. 1870J. C. Duval Adventures Big-Foot Wallace xxv. 148, I got it from ‘Puppy's Foot’, the Tonkawa chief. Ibid. xl. 245 My old friend ‘Bah-pish-na-ba-hoo-tee’ (which means ‘Little blue whistling thunder’ in the Tonkawa language). 1933H. Hoijer Tonkawa (thesis, Columbia Univ.) p. ix, The Tonkawa appear to have been an important and warlike tribe living in central Texas during most of the 18th and 19th centuries. Ibid. p. x, Tonkawa is now spoken by only six persons—all of them past middle age. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 43/3 By the 1970s the Tonkawa reservation in Oklahoma was reported to have a total population of about 60. |