Post by Californian on Jul 20, 2019 19:39:58 GMT -5
The Kiowas by Mildred P. Mayhall, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK, 1962, 315 p.
The Kiowa Indians were, along with the fighting Cheyennes, the most feared and hated of the Plains Indian tribes. Here is the story of their evolution from mountain dwellers to Plains nomads and
finally, after the Indian wars of the 1870s. to settlement on a reservation in Oklahoma.
The acquisition of the white man's vehicle, the horse, was basic to Plains Indian culture, and the Kiowas were drawn ever farther south from their native Yellowstone region by the lure of the horses and captives to be found in Texas and Old Mexico. Fierce and unrelenting in warfare against both red men and white, as early as 1790 they assumed a dominant position on the southern plains. By 1840 they, along with their allies-the Comanche,s, Southern Cheyennes, and Arapahoes-had placed themselves athwart the Santa Fe Trail on the Arkansas River, where they harassed traders, trappers, the military, and peaceful Indian tribes.
In the wars of the 1860s and 1870s the United States Army did not completely conquer the Kiowas until their commissary, the buffalo. was destroyed and the Indians were unhorsed. In defeat they
were forced to give up a proud and free life for a confused existence under government protection -forced to move abruptly from the Stone Age to civilization.
This distinguished book not only tells the history of the Kiowas. It also tells how they lived, traces the development of their unique pictographic calendars, relates what their chiefs and warriors said and
did. and shows their women and children at work and at play.
[courtesy of GoodReads]
The Kiowa Indians were, along with the fighting Cheyennes, the most feared and hated of the Plains Indian tribes. Here is the story of their evolution from mountain dwellers to Plains nomads and
finally, after the Indian wars of the 1870s. to settlement on a reservation in Oklahoma.
The acquisition of the white man's vehicle, the horse, was basic to Plains Indian culture, and the Kiowas were drawn ever farther south from their native Yellowstone region by the lure of the horses and captives to be found in Texas and Old Mexico. Fierce and unrelenting in warfare against both red men and white, as early as 1790 they assumed a dominant position on the southern plains. By 1840 they, along with their allies-the Comanche,s, Southern Cheyennes, and Arapahoes-had placed themselves athwart the Santa Fe Trail on the Arkansas River, where they harassed traders, trappers, the military, and peaceful Indian tribes.
In the wars of the 1860s and 1870s the United States Army did not completely conquer the Kiowas until their commissary, the buffalo. was destroyed and the Indians were unhorsed. In defeat they
were forced to give up a proud and free life for a confused existence under government protection -forced to move abruptly from the Stone Age to civilization.
This distinguished book not only tells the history of the Kiowas. It also tells how they lived, traces the development of their unique pictographic calendars, relates what their chiefs and warriors said and
did. and shows their women and children at work and at play.
[courtesy of GoodReads]