Tonkawan.adj.
/ˈtɒŋkəwə/ 1. (A member of) an Indian people of Texas.
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Quapaw1698
Padouca1746
Sarcee1801
Comanche1806
Tonkawa1806
Wichita1841
1806 J. Sibley in Message from President of U.S., communicating Discoveries made in exploring the Missouri by Captains Lewis & Clark 74 Tankaways (or Tanks, as the French call them) have no land,..but are always moving.
1931 H. Hoijer Tonkawa (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Chicago) 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.
2. The language of this people.
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Mojave1877
Washoe1882
Yana1891
Karok1913
Tonkawa1931
1931 H. Hoijer Tonkawa (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Chicago) p. x Tonkawa is now spoken by only six persons—all of them past middle age.
Compounds
General attributive.
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Seri1829
Tonkawa1870
Tlapanec1875
Karankawan1891
Tequistlatecan1891
Yuman1891
Yahi1911
the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [adjective] > others
Padouca1760
Quapaw1770
black-footed1772
Sarcee1790
Ozark1816
Comanche1819
Tonkawa1870
earth lodge1885
Skidi1891
1870 J. C. Duval Adventures Big-Foot Wallace xxv. 148 I got it from ‘Puppy's Foot’, the Tonkawa chief.
1870 J. C. Duval Adventures Big-Foot Wallace xl. 245 My old friend ‘Bah-pish-na-ba-hoo-tee’ (which means ‘Little blue whistling thunder’ in the Tonkawa language).
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 43/3 By the 1970s the Tonkawa reservation in Oklahoma was reported to have a total population of about 60.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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