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had never ceased their raids into Texas, and had constantly behaved 

 in the most insolent manner toward the agent and military commander 

 on the reservation. On May 17, 1871, a party of about one hundred 

 warriors, led by Set-t'aiute and Set-iingya, attacked a wagon train in 

 Texas, killed 7 men and captured 41 mules. Shortly afterward Set- 

 t'aifite had the boldness to avow the deed to the agent, Lawrie Tatum, 

 who at once called upon the commander at Fort Sill to arrest Set- 

 faiute aud several other chiefs who had accompanied him, viz: 

 Set-iingya, Big-tree, Bigbow, Eagle-Heart and Fast-bear. The officer 

 promptly responded aud arrested the first three; Eagle-heart escaped 

 and the other two were absent at the time. On May 28, the three 

 prisoners were sent under military guard to Fort Eichardson (Jacks- 

 boro), Texas, to be tried for their crimes, when Set-iingya attacked the 

 guard and was killed in the wagon (Report, 89; Record, 11; Batfey, 

 19 ; Tatum letter). The fate of the other prisoners is noted elsewhere. 

 According to the Kiowa account, which is correct in the main inci- 

 dents, the prisoners having been disarmed, Set-iingya was i)laced in a 

 wagon, accompanied by a single soldier, and Set-t'ainte and Big-tree 

 were put into another wagon with other guards, and an escort of cavalry 

 and Tonkawa scouts rode on either side. Leaving Fort Sill, they' 

 started toward the south on the road to Texas, when Set-iingya began a 

 loud harangue to the two prisoners in the other wagon, telling them 

 that he was a chief and a warrior, too old to be treated like a little 

 child. Then pointing to a tree where the road descends to cross a small 

 stream about a mile south of the post, he said : '• I shall never go beyond 

 that tree." As he spoke in the Kiowa language, none but the prisoners 

 knew what he was saying. Then raising his voice, he sang his death 

 song, the song of the Kaitseuko, of whom he was chief: 



I'ha hyo' o'ya i'ya' i'ya' o i'ha ya'ya yo'yo' 

 A'he'ya ahe'ya' ya'he'yo' ya e'ya he'yo e'Ue'yo 

 Ka'itseu'ko .'inii'obahe'ma liaa'-ipai'-degi o'lj;i'-ik;V 

 Kili'tse'uko iiuii'obahe'ma hada'mga'gi o'ba'-ika' 



/ hahyo, etc. 



Ahei/a, etc. 



O SHU, yon remaiu forever, but we KaitseTiko must die. 



( ) earth, you remaiu forever, liut we Kaitseuko must die. 



The song ended, he suddenly sprang upon the guard with a knife 

 which he had managed to conceal about his person, aud had cut him 

 seriously when the soldiers following behind fired and he fell dead in 

 the wagon. He was buried in the military cemetery at Fort Sill, but 

 there is nothing to distinguish the grave. The Kiowa statement of his 

 singing his death song is corroborated by Battey aud by agent Tatum. 



Although a noted warrior and a chief of the Kintsi'hko, Set-iingya was 

 generally feared and disliked by the tribe on account of his vindictive 

 dis])Osition and his supposed powers of magic. It was believed that he 

 could kill an enemy by occult means, aud that he had in this manner 

 actually disposed of one or two who had incurred his displeasure. The 

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