Just over twenty years ago Tribal Elder Atwater Onco told me, “It was time.” I was to have a Kiowa Name. Atwater said, my Name had come to him after our time together, then confirmed in a dream. Kiowa Naming Ceremony My father started a fire early that morning. As it blazed, Grandpa fed resin-rich…
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Elders On The Importance of Kiowa Names
For Cultures with Oral Traditions, Words are sacred. They have power. Through words, we exist. Just as the Kiowa Emergence Story celebrated the consciousness and naming of the Kiowa Tribe, the Kiowa Naming Ceremony honors the consciousness of an individual, a Kiowa finding their way, their identity. That is Koy taw gee geah daw, the…
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