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Kaw

American  
[kaw] / kɔ /

noun

  1. another name for Kansa.


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It has even lost Lay Kay Kaw, a new town built with Japanese funding in 2015 for the KNU, at a time when it was part of a ceasefire agreement with the central government.

From BBC Oct. 22, 2025

In Kansas, they helped fund the relocation of a 28-ton boulder that was sacred to the Kaw Nation to parkland owned by the Kaw.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 2024

The saxophonist Jim Pepper was Kaw and Muscogee Creek, and several of his compositions featured a Native American chorus.

From New York Times Feb. 24, 2023

The family yearns for their home and their corn fields near Lay Kay Kaw.

From Seattle Times Apr. 6, 2022

Kaw croaked joyfully as Taran smoothed his feathers and scratched him under the beak.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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