KIOWA HOSTILITIES 



175 



every old man of the Kiowa now alive was in t.liis battle, wliich is 

 famous among all the tribes of the southern i)lains (see the calendar). 

 In the same year, according to Clark, a party of li;{ I'awnee was 

 cut oit' and slaughtered almost to a man by an overwhelming force of 

 Cheyenne and Kiowa {Clarl; 19). There is no record of this engage- 

 ment on the calendars, although several minor encounters with the 

 Pawnee are noted about this time. 



HOSTILE DKIFT OF THE KIOWA 



In the next few years we find little of importance recorded of the 

 Kiowa beyond concurrent statements of both military and civil officials 

 that they were growing 

 constantly more insolent 

 and unmauageable. In 

 1850 a war party of nearly 

 one hundred arrived at 

 Albuquenpie, New Mex- 

 ico, having passed through 

 the center of the settle- 

 ments of that territory, on 

 their way to attack the 

 Navaho. They were turned 

 back by the military com- 

 mander, committing sev- 

 eral depredations as they 

 retired {Report, 5). Two 

 years later another large 

 ■war party, together with 

 some Cheyenne, passed 

 Fort Garland, Colorado, 

 almost on the gj'eat divide, 

 in pursuit of the Ute [Re- 

 'port, 6). 



defiant speech of do- 

 hIsan 



Fig. 44-DoIiilaiiu or Little-bluff, i>rinti|i:Ll cbief, 1833-18li(> 



On one occasion, during <"""■■ ^'""'■'' ''■''' 



the distribution of the annuity goods on the Arkansas, when fifteen 

 hundred lodges of Clieyeune, Arapaho, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache 

 were encamped along the river, the agent took the opportunity to tell 

 the Kiowa as plainly as possible that if they did not cease their depre- 

 dations the government would not only withhold their presents but 

 would send troops to punish them. The great chief Dohtisiin, after 

 listening in respectful silence to the end, sprang to his feet, and, calling 

 the attention of the agent to the hundreds of tipis in the valley below, 

 replied in a characteristic speech : 



