308 CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA [f.th.ann.17 



SUMMER I860 



T'en(5-badai, "Bird-appeariug," was killed. The figure sliows a man 

 shot tlirough the body, with blood streaming from his mouth, while the 

 bird above is iuteuded to iudicate his uame. As there was no sun 

 dance this year, the medicine lodge is omitted. 



A part of the Kiowa tribe was south of the Arkansas, while the rest, 

 with the Kwahadi and other western Comanche, under the chiefs 

 Tabi-na'uaka (Hears-the-sun) and Isii-hJi'Wt (Wolf-lying-down), were 

 camped north of that stream, when one day the latter party discovered 

 a large body of people crossing the river. Tiibi-na/naka went out to 

 reconnoiter, and returned with the report that there were a great many 

 of them and that they were probably enemies. The Kiowa and Coman- 

 che at once broke camp and tied northward, and on their way met the 

 Cheyenne and Arapaho, to whom they told the news, whereupon the 

 latter also fled with them. By this time it had been discovered that the 

 pui'suers were white soldiers, accompanied by a large body of Caddo, 

 Wichita, Tonkawa, and Peniiteka Comanche. As they 

 fled, the Kiowa and their allies kept spies on the lookout, 

 who one night rejmrted their enemies asleep, when they 

 turned and attacked them at daylight, killing a soldier, 

 but losing a Comanche named Silver-knife (properlj' Tin- 

 knife, Ha'nfain-lcd in Kiowa), who was shot through the 

 neck with an arrow, and a Kiowa named T'ene-badai, 

 "Bird-appearing," noted for his handsome appearance, 

 who was killed by a Caddo. The engagement took place 

 in Kansas, somewhere northward from Smoky-hill river 



Fig. 127-Summer (Pe P^a). 



1860-Bira-ap. ^j^ Penatcka Comanche lived in Texas, near the set- 



peanng Killed. ' 



tlements, and associated more with the Caddo, Wichita, 

 and whites than witli their western kinsmen, the Kwahadi Comanche, 

 against whom and their allies, the Kiowa and Apache, they sevei'al 

 times aided the whites. 



There is no direct notice of this engagement in the Indian Report, 

 but the Commissioner states that peace had jirevailed among the treaty 

 tribes during the year, with the conspicuous exception of the Kiowa, 

 whose increasing turbulence would seem to render military operations 

 against them advisable. In another place he states that both the 

 Kiowa and Comanche were known to be hostile, and that the army had 

 been ordered to chastise them, as the only way to make them respect 

 their engagements and to stay their nnirderous hands. In going to 

 Bent's fort, he says: 



Citizens of tLe United States in advance of me as I went out, and also on my return, 

 were brutally murdered and scalped upon the road. It is a fact also worthy of 

 remark that the murders were committed almost within range of the guns at Fort 

 Larned. The Indian mode of warfare, however, is such that it is almost impossible 

 to detect them in their designs. They cautiously iipproach the Santa Fe road, com- 

 mit the most atrocious deeds, and tlee to the plains (lUjiort, So). 



