Ki·o·wa 
(kīə-wô′, -wä′, -wā′)
(kīə-wô′, -wä′, -wā′)n. pl. Kiowa or Ki·o·was
1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting the southern Great Plains, with a present-day population in southwest Oklahoma. The Kiowa migrated onto the plains in the late 1600s from an earlier territory in western Montana.
2. The Kiowa-Tanoan language of the Kiowa.
[Kiowa kɔygu, Kiowa people.]