1X4 CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA [eth Asr.-.n 



and with the Kiowa, Coinaticlie, and Ai)ache, these beiug the treaties 

 under which the latter tribes hold their present or recent reservations 

 and draw their annuities. 



In regard to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apaclie, the commissiouers 

 state that from the testimony tbey were satistied that these tril)es had 

 substantially complied witli the terras of their treaty made two years 

 before on the Little Arkansas, the only serious violation beiug the 

 killing of James Box and the capture of his family in western Texas 

 in August, 18G6. This is the Set-t'ainte raid already noted. As excuse 

 for this, the commissioners state, the Indians urged that they supi)osed 

 an attack on Texas people would be no violation of a treaty with the 

 United States — that as we ourselves had been at war with the people 

 of Texas, an act of hostility on their part would not be disagreeable 

 to us. In regard to numerous other misdeeds credited to these tribes, 

 they state that the evidence pretty clearly demonstrates that the 

 charges were almost entirely without foundatiou [Report, 24). 



After visiting some of the northern bands, the commissioners went 

 to Fort Lamed, Kansas, whence they sent messengers to the Cheyenne 

 and Arai^aho, Kiowa, Comanche, and Ai)ache, notifying them of their 

 arrival and purpose. They then proceeded to the general tribal ren- 

 dezvous on Medicine-lodge creek, about the present site of Medicine 

 Lodge, Barber county, Kansas, where they met the Indians, and the 

 treaties were made (see the calendar). 



A treaty was first made with the Kiowa and Comanche on October 

 21, 18G7, and by a supplementary treaty made immediately afterward 

 on the same day, the Apache, at their own request, were formally con- 

 federated and incorporated with them instead of with the Cheyenne 

 and Arapaho, with whom they had been united by the treaty of the 

 Little Arkansas two years before. The Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache 

 together signed the treaty of confederation, which was proclaimed 

 August L*5, 1868. At the same council meeting was made the similar 

 treaty with the Cheyenne and Arapaho, by which those tribes held 

 their late reservation and became entitled to their current annuities. 

 These treaties superseded all previous agreements (Trealies). 



The Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache treaty provides for peace and 

 mutual good will, and stipulates that the Indians shall refrain from 

 further attacks on the whites, and withdraw all opposition to the con- 

 struction of railroads and other roads and the building of military 

 posts in the western country, then or afterward to be authorized by 

 the government. The usual provision is made for an agency, schools, 

 farmers, doctor, blacksmith, etc. Article G provides for the selection 

 of fanning tracts within the proposed reservation, to be recorded and 

 held as the individual property of such Indians as may desire to become 

 farmers. 



Article 2 sets apart for the use of the three confederated tribes their 

 IH-esent reservation, bounded on the east by the ninety-eighth meridian, 



