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ORIGIN OF THE KIOWA APACHE 



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Apache from New Mexico are now living with them, and individuals of 

 the two tribes frequently exchange visits, but this friendly intimacy is 

 a matter of only sixty or eighty years' standing, resulting from the 

 peace between the Kiowa and Comanche, as already recorded. 

 They have not migrated from the southwest into the plains country. 



Fui. 58— Grayeaffic, a Kinwa Apachn aubcliief 



but have come with the Kiowa from the extreme north, where they lay 

 the scene of tlieir oldest traditions, including their great medicine story. 

 Their association with the Kiowa antedates the first removal of the 

 latter from the mountains, as both tribes say they have no memory of 

 a time when they were not together. It is probable that the Kiowa 



