180 CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA [eth.ann.17 



with S^t-tiklal ("Leau-bear") for the Apache, aud eight of the Co- 

 uiauohe. Credit for tliis result is due hrrgely to the ettbrts of agent 

 Leavenwortli, who secured a suspension of military operations while he 

 went out to bring in the Indians, a matter of peculiar difliculty in 

 view of their fresh recollection of the massaci-e of friendly Cheyenne by 

 Colonel Chiviugton in the autumii of the preceding year (Re2iort, 16). 

 Pursuant to agreement, commissioners met the live tribes in October, 

 18G5, at the mouth of the Little Arkansas, where treaties were made 

 with the Cheyenne and Arapaho on the 14th, with the Apache on the 

 17th, and with the Kiowa and Comanche on the 18th. By the treaty 

 with the Apache they were officially detached from the Kiowa and 

 Comauche and attaclied to the Cheyenne aud Arapaho, who agreed to 

 relinquish their reservation in southeastern Colorado for one farther 

 south, in Kansas aud Indian Territory. The Kiowa and Comanche 

 agreed to remove south of the Arkansas, the reservation proposed for 

 their future home being a tract in western Texas and Oklahoma, as 

 follows: Commencing on the Canadian river where the eastern line of 

 New Mexico crosses the same; thence running south along said line 

 to the southern boundary of New Mexico; thence in a northeast- 

 wardly direction to the headwaters of Big Wichita river; thence down 

 said river to its mouth or its junction with Eed river; thence due 

 north to Canadian river; thence up the Canadian to the place of begin- 

 ning. By this treaty, which was intended to be only temporary, they 

 gave up all claims in Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico, aud were 

 restricted to southwestern Oklahoma and the region of the Staked 

 plain in Texas. Five white captives were surrendered by the Kiowa 

 and Comanche at the same time ( Treaty). 



DEATH OF DOHASAN 



In the course of the talk Dohasiin, on behalf of his people, made a 

 vigorous protest against being couflned to a reservation, claiming that 

 the Kiowa owned from Fort Laramie and the North Platte to Texas 

 and had always owned it, and that he did not want his country cut 

 up and divided with other tribes or given to the white man; his peo- 

 ple wanted a large country to roam over ; they did not want to stay 

 long in one place, but wanted to move about; the Santa Fc road was 

 open aud would not be disturbed, but the rest of their country he 

 wanted let alone. Notwithstanding this protest the treaty was signed. 

 Among others officially present were Kit Carson, William Bent, and 

 Agent Leavenworth, with William Shirley and Jesse Chisholm as 

 interpreters [Report, 17). Dohasiin died shortly afterward, early in 

 1866, and with his death began the rapid decline of the Kiowa tribe. 

 He was succeeded by Giiipii'go, "Lone-wolf," adopted father of the 

 present chief of the same name. But the Indian day was drawing to a 

 close. Within a few years the Kiowa were practically prisoners on a 

 reservation, aud their chiefs were the creatures of petty factions aud 

 mere figureheads in the hands of the government. 



