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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



I ETH. ANX. 17 



Fio. 97 — 'Win ter 



1846-47--Mustache 

 shooting. 



While the Kiowa were encamped for the winter on Elk creek, a 



tributary of the North fork of Red river, within the limits of the 



present reservation, a band of Pawnee coming' on foot stole a number 



of their horses. The Kiowa jnirsued them northward and overtook 



them on the Washita and recovered the horses after a 



tight in which one Pawnee was killed. lu this action 



Set-iingya engaged a Pawnee and was about to stab 



him with his lance when his foot slipped on the snow, 



causing him to fall, and the Pawnee sent an arrow 



through Set-iingya's upper lip. 



SUMIMEK 1847 



Ma'nlca-giiadal Ehotal-ile Pal, "Summer that Red- 

 sleeve was killed." The figure shows the Indian leader 

 ■ with his war-bounet and red sleeve. Tlie medicine lodge 

 is absent, showing that there was no sun dance that 

 year. 

 Mauka-guadal is the Kiowa name of the Comanche 

 chief Red-sleeve (Ikamosa?), who was killed in an attack 

 against a party of Santa Fe traders in Kansas, where 

 the Santa Fe trail crossed Pawnee fork of the Arkan- 

 sas, below the present Fort Lamed, which was not 

 built until 1859. Pawnee fork, properly called by the Kiowa A ikoii 

 Phi, "Dark-timber river," is sometimes called by them from this circum- 

 stance Md'nka-guudul-de Phi, " Red-sleeve's river." 

 According to the story told by the Kiowa, they and 

 the Comanche were out in search of the Pawnee when 

 they met at this point a large jiarty of white men with 

 wagons — evidently Santa Fe traders. Red-sleeve 

 wanted to attack them, but Set-iingya, the Kiowa 

 leader, refused, saying that the whites were their 

 friends. Red-sleeve then taunted the Kiowa as cow- 

 ards, put on his war -bonnet, and, calling his Com- 

 anche, attacked the traders. The Kiowa, wishing to 

 avoid ti'ouble, drew off. About the first fire a bullet 

 went through the leg of Red-sleeve and into the 

 spine of his horse, so that the animal fell, pinning his 

 wounded rider to the ground. He called on Set ;i ngya 

 to help him, but the Kiowa chief refused on account 

 of the taunt of cowardice, and the white men came 

 up to Red-sleeve and shot him. 



As the government had but little communication with the tribes of 

 the southern plains until some years after the Mexican war, there is no 

 direct notice of this occurrence in the ofQcial reports, but a letter by 

 agent Fitzpatrick in the report of the Indian Commissioner for 1848, 

 the year after the attack upon the train, bears out the statement of the 



Fio. 98— Summi>r 1847 

 Rea-sleeve kilU-il. 



