MoosEY] AFFAIR? OF I865-1H67 181 



KIOWA RAIDS CONTINUED 



As a result of these peaceful efforts, there were but few reports of 

 disturbances duriug the uextyear, exceptiug from the incorrigible Kiowa. 

 Notwithstanding all their promises, Set-t'ainte led a war party into 

 Texas and returned with five captives, a woman and four children, 

 whom he brought into Fort Larned for ransom. The agent sharply 

 reminded him of his promise to cease such acts, and demanded the 

 surrender of the prisoners without compensation, whereon, under pre- 

 tense of consulting the other chiefs, Set-faiDte took them to Fort Dodge, 

 where the commander, compassiouatiug their condition, rescued them 

 for a large sum. In reporting the circumstance, their agent urges that 

 it is high time the Kiowa were made to feel the strong arm of the gov- 

 ernment as the only means of bringing them to a sense of their duty, 

 as they even went so far as to boast that stealing white women was a 

 more lucrative business than stealing horses (Report, IS). 



Other complaints came in during the next year, but full investigation 

 by the military authorities satisfied them that with the exception of 

 this raid by Set-t'ainte the Kiowa and Comanche were innocent [Report, 

 19). Accordingly measures were taken to arrange a meeting with 

 these tribes to establish more definite treaty relations, as contemplated 

 in the provisional treaty of 1865. Preliminary to this meeting Agent 

 Labadi, with a small party, went from Santa Fe across to the Texas 

 bolder, where he met a large portion of the confederated tribes and 

 urged on them the necessity of keeping peace with the government, at 

 the same time demanding the free surrender of all white captives of 

 the United States held by them, concluding by telling them that all of 

 their tribes hereafter found north of the Arkansas would be treated as 

 hostiles. After a conference among themselves, the chiefs agreed to 

 deliver up the captives and end all difficulties, and arranged for a full 

 meeting later, when some absent chiefs should have returned. In 

 regard to the raids into Texas, they distinctly stated that they had 

 been told by the military ofBcers of the government to do all the dam- 

 age they could to Texas, because Texas was at war with the United 

 States (referring to the recent rebellion), and that until now they 

 were ignorant that i)eace had been established. Although it is pretty 

 certain that some of them at least had already been told that the rebel- 

 lion was at an end, yet there can be no doubt that the peculiar relations 

 which from the very beginning had existed between Texas and the 

 general government furnished them a plausible excuse for the depreda- 

 tions [Report, 20). 



THE TEEATY OF MEDICINE LODGE, 1867, AND ITS RESULTS 



The i-esult of these negotiations was the treaty of Medicine Lodge 

 on October 21, 18G7, by which the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache were 

 ofiicially confederated and agreed to come upon their present reserva- 



