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INDIAN ATTACKS ON CARAVANS 



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Kiowa that tliey were, anxious to lieep peace with the wliites, evun at 

 the risk of quarreling with the Comanche and losing some very i)rofit- 

 able business opportunities. Speaking of de])redations upon parties 

 traveling on the emigrant roads and the Santa Fe 

 trail, he says : 



Before leaving there [Bent's fort] last February I had an 

 interview with some of the Kiaway chiefs, and who ha\ o here- 

 tofore been allies of the Comanches. They ex[ire8sed them- 

 selves as sorry for having anything to do with the war against 

 us, and promised to quit their country and all iutereonrse with 

 the Comanches and join the Cheyeunes on the Arkansas, who 

 are the friends of the whites. This course I approved, and 

 since my departure from that country last spring learned that 

 nearly all the Kiaways have moved to the country of the 

 Cheyennes and Arapahoes and are living in perfect amity with 

 the surrounding tribes. 



He also states that there seem to have been fewer 

 attacks made upon travelers along the Santa Fv road 

 recently, which he cau account for only on the sup- 

 position that "the Indians having, in 1846 and 1847, 

 secured so much booty by their daring outrages upon 

 travelers, are now and have been the past summer 

 luxuriating in and enjoying the spoils" {Report^ 77). 



WINTER 1847-48 



Fig. 99— Winter 18i7- 



They camped all winter on Tain P'a, "White ^-'^i-t"' «=»■»?• 

 river," an extreme upper branch of the South Canadian (perhaps 



The figure represents the winter 

 with the 

 brush windbreak 

 around it. 



identical with Major Long's creek). 



camp 



SUjNOIER 1S4S 



Opnii K' <i(J6, 



"Kil'itseiiko initi- 

 ation sun dance." 



This dance was 



held on Arkansas 



river near Bent's 



fort, in Colorado, 



and was distin- 

 guished by the initiation of several KA'itsenko 

 (see summer 1846). The figure represents an initiate with his (red) body 



paint and oiHimympo. 



WIXTER 1848-1:!) 



The Kiowa were camped on Arkansas river near Bent's fort and 

 made "antelope medicine" {(ifd'kagihi) for a great antelope drive. 

 Compare the flgui'es from the Dakota calendars of Mallery (figure 102). 



Fig. 100— Suinmer 1848— Initiation sun 

 dance. 



Winter 1848-4!>-Aute- 

 lope drive. 



