VIII BUREAU OB" AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Sketfli dl' till- Kiowii tribe — Continued Page 

 The historic;il piriod — Coutinned 



Changed conditions 218 



Eiiideniics of measles and fever in 1877 — First houses built 218 



Agency removed to Anadarko — The last of the buffalo 218 



Threatened outbreak instigated by Datekafi 219 



Epidemic of 1882 — Beginning of church work 219 



Leasing of grass lands 219 



Pa'-ingya, the medicine-man and prophet 220 



Indian court established 220 



Intertribal council of 1888 221 



Death of Sun-boy — The last sun dance 221 



Ghost dance inaugurated — Apiatan's journey in 1890 221 



Enlistment of Indians as soldiers 223 



Measles epidemic of 1892 — Grass lands leased 223 



Commission for allotment of lauds — Protest against decision 224 



Present condition — Agents in charge of confederate tribes 225 



Summary of principal events 226 



Sociology of the Kiowa 227 



Absence of the clan system 227 



Local divisions 227 



Subtribes 227 



The camp circle 228 



Military organization — Ya"p;ihe warriors 229 



Heraldic system 230 



Name system 231 



Marriage 231 



Tribal government 233 



Character 233 



Population 235 



Religion of the Kiowa 237 



Scope of their belief 237 



The sun 237 



Objects of religious veneration 238 



Tribal medicines of other Indians 242 



The sun dance 242 



The Nadiisha-dena or Kiowa Apache 245 



Tribal synonymy 245 



Tribal sign 246 



Origin and history 246 



First official American notice 251 



Treaties 251 



Delegation to Washington, 1872 — Friendly disposition 251 



Progress toward civilization — Death of Pacer, 1875 252 



Recent history and present condition 252 



Population 253 



The annual calendars, 1833-1892 254 



1832-33. Money captured from American traders 254 



1833. Massacre by the Osage and capture of the taime — Pedestrian war 



parties — Beheading 257 



1833-34. Meteoric display 2fi0 



1834. Dragoon expedition — First official intercourse — Trade estab- 



lished 261 



1834-35. Bull-tail killed by Mexicans 269 



1835. Cat-tail-rush sun dance — Capture of B6iri-edal and Cynthia 



Parker 270 



