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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



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kiiil'e with wiiic.li lie attacked tlie soldier is reputed to have been a 

 "medicine knife," which he could swallow and disgorge as demanded 

 by the necessity of concealment or use; several stories are told by the 

 Indians to confirm this belief. His paternal grandmother was a woman 

 of the Harsi (Pdkuigo, a small tribe incorporated with the Blackfeet,) 



Via. 15U — SKt-t'aiiitu iii [nisttii (Irom ^Scribtier's iLonthlii, February. 1874) 



who had married a Kiowa when the latter tribe lived in the far north. 

 Uidike Indians generally, he habitually wore a mustache and straggling 

 beard. He left two children ; the elder, a son, was adopted into a white 

 family under the name of Joshua Given, was educated in the east, mar- 

 ried a white lady, afterward returned as a missionary to his people, 



