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Kiowa geography is a term used to describe landscape features of cultural significance to the Kiowa people of

Southwestern Oklahoma, as well as the historical knowledge associated with these places. Bearing Anglicized modifications of Kiowa place names, these geographic features represent some of the last extant examples of curren

t usage of the Kiowa language, which has been designated 'severely endangered' by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Despite being popularized in novels such as M. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain and having received scholarly attention in ethnographic works such as Kiowa Ethnogeography (Meadows 2010), Kiowa cultural identity as represented by place naming continues to be threatened by

Literature References
schnell 2000

Lee 2005

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Palmer 2011 2012

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