Aahkawiraahkata

Aahkawiraahkata is a name recorded for the Smoky Hill River, which rises on the High Plains and flows east across Kansas. Its branches wind through grassland and shallow valleys before joining the Republican River to form the Kansas. Indigenous communities knew the Smoky Hill and the Kansas as parts of the same waterway. Along its course, river bottoms connected the open hunting grounds of the western plains to farming settlements farther east.