MooNEv] KIOWA APACHE IN PRESENT CENTURY 251 



above the Quapaw (see the Kiowa Apache synonymy, page 245). In 

 1719 La Harpe found them ("Quataqiiois'") living in connection with 

 the Tawakoni and other affiliated tribes in a village which has been 

 identified by Philip Walker, Escjuire, of Washington, as situated on the 

 south bank of the Cimarron, near its junction with the Arkansas, in 

 what is now the Creek nation of Indian Territory (Margry, 3). 



FIRST OFFICIAL AMERICAN NOTICE 



The official history of the Apache begins nearly a hundred years 

 later. In 1805 the explorers Lewis and Clark describe the "Ca'taka," 

 whom they apparently did not meet, as living between the heads of 

 the two forks of Cheyenne river, in the Black Hills region of north- 

 eastern Wyoming, and numbering twenty-five tipis, seventy-five war- 

 riors, and three hundred souls. This appears to be a singularly close 

 estimate. The Kiowa lived near them, on the North Platte, and both 

 tribes had the same alliances and general customs. They were rich 

 in horses, which they sold to the Arikara and Mandan, but had no 

 trader among them, and the mouth of Cheyenne river was suggested 

 as a suitable place for the establishment of a trading post for them 

 both {Lewis and Clark, 6). 



TREATIES 



In 1837, in connection with the Kiowa and Tawakoni, they made 

 their first treaty with the government, as has already been described 

 at length iu treating of tlie Kiowa. They are called Kataka in the 

 treaty, this being apparently the last official use of that name, and 

 thenceforth they have been known as Ai)ache. Their subsequent his- 

 tory is that of the Kiowa. In 1853 they are mentioned as a warlike 

 band ranging the waters of Canadian river, in the same great plains 

 occupied by the Comanche, with whom they often joined in raiding 

 expeditions (Report, 67). 



By the treaty of the Little Arkansas, in 1865, they were officially 

 detached from the Kiowa and attached to the Cheyenne and Arapaho. 

 This was done at the recpiest of the Ajjache themselves, in consequence 

 of the unfriendly attituile of the Kiowa toward the whites. But the 

 arrangement had no practical force, and by the treaty of Medicine 

 Lodge, iu 18t!7, they were formally reunited to the Kiowa. This latter 

 treaty was signed by six chiefs on behalf of the Apache, Giiantekana, 

 "Poor-bear," being then their principal chief (see the treaty, ante). A 

 part of the Apache continued to live with the Cheyenne and Arapaho 

 until after the readjustment at the close of the outbreak of 1874-75. In 

 kee])ing with the general conduct of tlie tribe, they remained peace- 

 able and friendly throughout the trouble [Report, 68). 



DELEGATION TO WASHINGTON, 1872 — FRIENDLY DISPOSITION 



They participated with the Kiowa and others in the joint delegation 

 which visited Washington in October, 1872, being represented on that 



