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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 

 THE LITTLE ARKANSAS TREATY IN 18()5 



|ETH. ANN. 17 



In a few months the grass was up and a change came o'er the spirit 

 of the dream. Hostilities liad begun on tlie plaius, and in order that 

 the innocent might not be punished with tlie guilty, the friendly tribes 

 along the eastern border had been forbidden to go out into the buffalo 

 country. This deprivation of accustomed privileges naturally caused 



Phnt.. by Soiile, about 1S70 



Fig. 45— Set-t';nnte (Satanta) or A\ iiuo 



grent dissatisfaction among the friendly Indians, who had come to 

 depend on their annual buflalo hunt to eke out their scanty food supply, 

 and they complained bitterly that the government had been feeding and 

 clothing the hostiles, while they themselves had been left to starve. 



