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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern and central Kansas, with a present-day population in eastern Oklahoma.
- noun The Siouan language of the Kansa.
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- proper noun A
Native American people who used to inhabit parts ofKansas (from whom it derives its name). - proper noun Their
language .
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- noun a member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas
- noun the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Kansa
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Examples
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The approach to Kansa is through a narrow valley through which courses a stream lined on either side by evergreen-dotted hills, while in the sequestered nooks nestle the black tents of the sparse inhabitants.
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'Kansa', and lastly, the very wonderful 'Bhavishyaparva' (in which there are prophecies regarding the future).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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(Kansa, Ioway, meaning to dig good potatoes); Cheyenne, Wyo. (the Cheyenne people).
Names 2009
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In fact he did not know many doctors in the Kansa City area who do support the AMA.
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No senior lender objected to the plan, and other stakeholders won't be affected by it, said Ken Kansa , an attorney with Sidley Austin LLP who is representing Lee.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Publisher Set to Exit Chapter 11 Peg Brickley 2012
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(Kansa, Ioway, meaning to dig good potatoes); Cheyenne, Wyo. (the Cheyenne people).
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Set 10,000 years ago, the Kansa tribe live on the western shores of the North Sea Basin.
Mezolith Steve 2010
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Set 10,000 years ago, the Kansa tribe live on the western shores of the North Sea Basin.
Archive 2010-05-01 Steve 2010
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I think the Kansa situation is one that illustrates the potential of extreme idiocy being introduced into the curriculum by political means.
The Wealthiest Churches, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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When Krugman writes, "Racism, misogyny and character assassination are all ways of distracting voters from the issues," he is echoing Thomas Frank's "What's the matter with Kansa s?" argument that liberals need to stop fighting irrational "culture wars" and return to the rational bread-and-butter issues that were once the heart of the Democratic Party.
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