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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



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peace which, 

 According to 

 Cheyenne, wl 



with trifling interruptions, has been kept to tliis daj'. 

 the Kiowa account, ths lirst overtures were made by the 

 10 sent two delegates with proposals, but the Kiowa were 

 suspicious and sent them back. The Cheyenne then 

 made a second attempt, with more success, and a ])eace 

 was concluded. The Arapaho were included in this 

 treaty, but, as the Kiowa say, had always been in doubt- 

 ful friendship, even when their allies, the Cheyenne, 

 were at war with the Kiowa. On the occasion of the 

 notable massacre of Cheyenne, in 1837, the Arapaho 

 were camped with the Kiowa and left to give the alarm 

 to their friends. This agrees with the conduct of the 

 Arapaho in more recent times in remaining neutral while 

 their Cheyenne confederates were at war with the 

 whites. 



WINTER 1S40-41 



K(i-i Sdhina Dam Sai. "Hide-(|uiver war expedition 

 winter." The tigure of a quiver is above the winter 

 mark. This winter is so called on account of a notable 

 war expedition made by the old men into Mexico, they 

 eciuippiug themselves with old bows and quivers of buf- 

 falo skin, as all the younger warriors had already gone 

 against INIexico, carrying all the more efficient wea])oiis 

 and ornate (juivers. The latter were usually of panther 

 skin or Mexican leather, but never of deer, antelope, or 

 buffalo skin if it could be avoided. 



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Fig. 83— "Winter 

 1840-41 — Hide- 

 quiver war espe- 

 ditiou. 







As the Kiowa were constantly moving about this summer, no sun 

 dance was held. The Arapaho met and attacked 

 a party of Pawnee at TUiiii Doha, "White bluft','' 

 on the upper South Canadian, near the line of New 

 Mexico, and killed all of them. The Pawnee threw 

 up breastworks, but, according to the Kiowa ac- 

 count, an Arapaho medicine-man who knew the 

 proper medicine song sat down facing the breast- 

 works and sang the song, moving his hands as 

 in the hand game, and thus " drove them out," 

 when they were killed in line one after another 

 as they ran. The Kiowa were not present at 

 the fight, but met and joined the Arapaho just 

 afterward, when a final treaty of peace was con- 

 cluded between the two tribes. Stumbling-bear 

 visited the spot some years afterward and saw 

 th(^ skeletons of the dead Pawnee warriors still lying as they fell. 



The figure represents tiie blulf with the I'awnee below it. the tribe 

 being indicated by the peculiar Pawnee scalplock and headdress (see 



FlG.84— Summer 1841- 

 Pawiiee fight. 



