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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



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the Indian soldiers, has been invested largely in houses and improved 

 stock. Today probably half the Indians of the three tribes are owners 

 of houses paid for with their own money (see the calendar). 



Fig. 53— H. L. Scott, t'aptaiu, Seventli cavalry, U. S. A. 

 COMMISSION FOB ALLOTMENT OF LANDS — PROTEST AGAINST DECISION 



In the autumn of 1S92 a comini.ssion, which had already concluded 

 agreements with several other tribes, visited the Kiowa, Comanche, and 

 Apache to negotiate with them for the distribution of individual 



