MooNET] CONTENTS 133 



Sketch of the Kiowa tribe — Contiuued Paga 

 Sociology of the Kiowa — Continued 



Subtribes 227 



The camp circle 228 



Military organization — Y;i"pahe warriors 229 



Heraldic system 230 



Name system 231 



Marriage 231 



Tribal government 233 



Character 233 



Population 235 



Eeligion 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-deua 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 260 



1834. Dragoon expedition — First official intercourse — Trade established . 261 

 1834-35. Bull-tail killed by Mexicans 269 



1835. Cat-tail rush sun dance — Captureof B6iu-edalandCynthlaParker. 270 

 1835-36. Big-face or Wolf-hair killed in Mexico 270 



1836. Wolf creek sun dance — Kinep visit Crows — Battle with Cheyenne. 271 

 1836-37. K'iruihiate killed in Mexico 271 



1837. Cheyenne massacred on upper Red river 271 



1837-38. Head-dragging winter 272 



1838. Kiowa and allies defeat Cheyenne and Arapaho 273 



1838-39. Battle with the Arapaho 273 



1839. Peninsula sun dance 274 



1839— to. Smalljiox ravages the plains tribes 274 



1840. Ked-bluif sun dance — Peace with Cheyenne and Arapaho 275 



1840-41. Ilide-ixuiver war expedition — Expeditions against Mexico 276 



1841. Pawnee massacred on the South Canadian 276 



1841-42. Encounter with Texan Santa Fe expedition — A'dalhabii'k'ia 



killed 277 



1842. Repeated sun dance .' 279 



1842-43. Crow-neck died 280 



1843. Nest-building sun dance — Encounter with Texans 280 



1843-44. Woman stabbed — Raid into Mexico — Trading post on South Cana- 

 dian 280 



1844. Dakota sun dance — Dakota visit Kiowa 281 



1844—45. Great expedition against Mexico — A'taha-ik'i killed 282 



