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tribe, which, if true, might indicate a foreign origin. Sindi is the 

 great mythic hero of the Kiowa. 



7. K'u'ato — "pulling up from the ground or a hole." An extinct 

 division, speaking a slightly different dialect, and exterminated by the 

 Sioux in one battle about the year 1780. On this occasion, according to 

 tradition, the Kiowa were attacked by an overwhelming force of Sioux 

 and prepared to retreat, but the chief of the K uato exhorted his peo- 

 ple not to run, '•because, if they did, their relatives in the other 



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Fig. 104 — Kiowa camping circle. 



world would not receive them." So they stood their ground and were 

 killed, while the others escaped. Their place in the tribal camp circle 

 is not known. 



In the annual sun dance and in other great tribal gatherings the 

 several divisions camped in the order shown in figure 104. 



Although brave and warlike, the Kiowa arc considered inferior in 

 most respects to the Comanche. In person they are dark and heavily 



built, forming a marked contrast to the i e slender and brighter- 



c plexioncd prairie tribes farther north. Their language is full of 



