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Kaw

  [kaw]
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–noun
Kansa.
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Kan⋅sa

  [kan-zuh, -suh]
–noun, plural -sas, (especially collectively) -sa for 1.
1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly of eastern Kansas, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
2. the Siouan language of the Kansa.
Also called Kaw.
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Kan·sa   (kān'zə, -sə)   
n.   pl. Kansa or Kan·sas In all senses also called Kaw.

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern and central Kansas, with a present-day population in eastern Oklahoma.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Siouan language of the Kansa.

Kaw   (kô)   
n.   pl. Kaw or Kaws
See Kansa.
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Kaw

North American Indians of Siouan linguistic stock who lived along the Kansas and Saline rivers in what is now central Kansas. It is thought that the Kansa had migrated to this location from an earlier prehistoric territory on the Atlantic coast. They are related to the Omaha, Osage, Quapaw, and Ponca.

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