set-t'ainte and big-tree released 



195 



Apaches aud Comambes, before the present delegation returns to the territory, and 

 tliat all the other tribes be warned that, in case of any resistance on the ])art of the 

 Kiowas. any Indians found aiding or communicating with them will be summarily 

 dealt with {Reporl. 31). 



Photo liy Soule, :i : 



Fig. 49 — " Ka-ati-wertz-ama-na — A brave man. not afraid nf any Indian" ' 

 RELEASE OF SET-T'AINTE AND BIG- TREE, 1873 



The principal event of 1873 was the release and return to their peo- 

 ple of the chiefs Sett'aifite and Big-tree, who had been iraiirisoned in 

 Texas under jurisdiction of the state authorities (see the calendar). 



' The Dame given is a Comanche coirnptioa. 



