{"id":128,"date":"2020-10-30T18:39:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2020-11-28T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T18:04:26","slug":"kiowa-naming-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/kiowa-naming-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Elders On The Importance of Kiowa Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For Cultures with Oral Traditions,<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Words are sacred.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>They have power.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Through words, we exist. <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">Just as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/the-kiowa-the-coming-out-people\/\">Kiowa Emergence Story<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>That is <em>Koy taw gee geah daw<\/em>, the Kiowa Way.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"\">Twenty years ago, I had the rare privilege to interview many tribe elders on videotape for a project to preserve Kiowa stories through the voices of Kiowa grandparents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Each elder gave priceless stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">From the youngest at seventy-two to the oldest at one hundred, each elder talked about the pride of receiving a Kiowa Name, the importance of having a Kiowa Name and the privilege of giving a Kiowa Name.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129\" style=\"width: 684px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-129 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.15.29-PM-1024x789.png\" alt=\"Photo of Sammy White\" width=\"684\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.15.29-PM-1024x789.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.15.29-PM-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.15.29-PM-768x592.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.15.29-PM-850x655.png 850w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.15.29-PM-250x193.png 250w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.15.29-PM-550x424.png 550w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.15.29-PM-800x616.png 800w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.15.29-PM-234x180.png 234w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.15.29-PM-389x300.png 389w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.15.29-PM-649x500.png 649w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.15.29-PM.png 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sammy White &#8211; <em>Tone Key I<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">Sammy White, at the time in his late eighties, still sported black braids down his back said,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><i>\u201c<\/i><\/strong>We actually have a Naming Ceremony. Kiowas get names at a significant time in life. Usually an elder gives it and you get presented to the tribe. It\u2019s kinda a coming out, an official announcement to your people, who you are to the Kiowa tribe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">My Indian name is <em>Tone Key I<\/em>. I inherited it from an uncle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">My uncle got the name many, many years ago. When he was a baby, he was very ill. Deathly ill. His parents took him to a Medicine Man named <em>One Ti Ka<\/em>, Snapping Turtle. He was a powerful medicine man.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em>One Ti Ka<\/em> got his Medicine from the Water<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>One Ti Ka <\/em>took the baby under the lake water for a long, long time. They stayed submerged for hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Finally, he rose out of the middle of the lake carrying the baby who was no longer ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>One Ti Ka<\/em> gave the baby to its parents, and told them, \u2018This is<em>&nbsp;Tone Key I<\/em>\u2019 which means Coming From the Water. My uncle used that name forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Before he died, my uncle gave me his name. I\u2019m very proud of my family name, <em>Tone Key I<\/em>.<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\"><strong>All Kiowas Need a Kiowa Name<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/atwater.png\" alt=\"Atwater Onco\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/atwater.png 720w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/atwater-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/atwater-250x167.png 250w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/atwater-550x367.png 550w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/atwater-270x180.png 270w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/atwater-450x300.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiowa Elder, Atwater Onco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">Atwater Onco, great grandson of the Calendar maker Onko told me,<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>A&nbsp;Naming Ceremony is sacred, a great, great ceremony.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Twenty years ago, Atwater worried,<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>One thing we\u2019re losing, young people need a Kiowa name. It\u2019s a way to hold on to the Kiowa heritage, have a Kiowa name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">I think that\u2019s important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I&#8217;m thinking about my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren are a quarter Kiowa, and their next generation is going to be sixteenth Kiowa.&nbsp;We need to include them, the sixteenth, thirty-second, sixty-fourth, so forth.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>We need to include them in our tribe because they are Kiowas.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>They should have Kiowa Names.\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-130 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.22.11-PM-1024x710.png\" alt=\"Carrie Sahmount\" width=\"640\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.22.11-PM-1024x710.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.22.11-PM-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.22.11-PM-768x532.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.22.11-PM-850x589.png 850w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.22.11-PM-250x173.png 250w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.22.11-PM-550x381.png 550w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.22.11-PM-800x555.png 800w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.22.11-PM-260x180.png 260w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.22.11-PM-433x300.png 433w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.22.11-PM-721x500.png 721w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.22.11-PM.png 1278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrie Sahmount at 100 Years Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">Carrie Sahmount, one hundred years old when interviewed, was born at the Kiowa Tribe\u2019s last Sun Dance. She proudly stated,<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>All my children have Kiowa names. And my grandchildren got Kiowa names. And they should know them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You should give them Kiowa names and they should know them. Keep them Kiowa.<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.18.19-PM-1024x772.png\" alt=\"Virginia McGilbray - Awto Maw\" width=\"640\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.18.19-PM-1024x772.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.18.19-PM-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.18.19-PM-768x579.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.18.19-PM-850x641.png 850w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.18.19-PM-250x188.png 250w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.18.19-PM-550x414.png 550w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.18.19-PM-800x603.png 800w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.18.19-PM-239x180.png 239w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.18.19-PM-398x300.png 398w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.18.19-PM-664x500.png 664w, https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-29-at-4.18.19-PM.png 1266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia McGilbray &#8211; Awto Maw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">Virginia Sahmount McGilbray, Carrie\u2019s daughter summed up the importance of a Kiowa Name.&nbsp;She shared,<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I have a Kiowa name,&nbsp;<i>Awto Maw&nbsp;<\/i>and it\u2019s my grandmother Bayco\u2019s name.&nbsp;They always called you by the name they gave you because that was so important.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Somehow, I understood, you didn\u2019t become a person until you had a name.\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Read more Stories from Kiowa Grandparents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmrowell.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"mod-reset\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Cultures with Oral Traditions, Words are sacred. 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