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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



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Tribal traits are strongly marked among- Indians. The Sioux are direct 

 and manly, the Cheyenne high-spirited and Ivcenly sensitive, the Arap- 

 aho generous and accommodating, the Comanclie practical and busi- 

 uesslike, but the Kiowa, with some honorable exceptions, are deficient 



Fift. 57 — Gn:iiii;it.'iii ialin>i Haitsikl) or Ffathi-red-Iance, a typiiul Kiowa 



in all these qualities. They have the savage virtue of bravery, as they 

 have abundantly proven, but as a people they have less of honor, grat- 

 itude, and general reliability than perhaps any other tribe of the plains. 

 The large iufusiou of captive blood, chietiy Mexican, must undoubtedly 



