The Kiowa

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The Kiowa – Apache were associated with the Kiowa before they left the Rocky Mountains. In 1682, La Salle referred to them as “Gattacka, saying they had horses, fashion show mall which they sold to the Pawnee. La Harpe in 1719, after being in the now Oklahoma area, mentioned the tribe as “Quataquios” living on the Arkansas River as neighbors of the Tawakoni. fashion show mall Lewis and Clark found them in 1805 in the Black Hills where the Kiowa were.
In 1865, at their request, the Kiowa-Apache were officialy attached to the Cheyenne as a result of the Treaty of the Little Arkansas, but in the Medicine Lodge Treaty, fashion show mall two years later, were reunited with the Kiowa.
Their principal chief, Pacer, was friendly with the white people and used his influence to promote peace among the tribes on the Kiowa – Comanche Reservation until his death in 1875. That year, A. J. Standing, a Quaker, schoolteacher, had established the first school among the Kiowa – Apache at their request.
The group had settled peaceably on the reservation and were highly commended by the authorities for their industry and their efforts to make their own living. In 1894, Apache John (Gonkon, “Stays in tipi”) a concientious leader, represented them in the delegation to Washington with A’piatan, in protesting the agreement of 1892. Most of the Kiowa -Apache were living in the vicinity of present day Apache, in Caddo County, OK, under the leadership of their chief, Tsayaditl-ti (“White Man”), just before allotments and the opening of the reservation lands in 1901.
The fashion show mall present location of the Kiowa – Apache is the vicinity of Fort Cobb and Apache in Caddo County. There are approximately 400 now. Official reports list their numbers as about 300, when Lewis and Clark found them, 378 in 1871, 344 in 1875, 349 in 1889, 208 in 1896, and only 194 in 1924.
(?-1892). fashion show mall White Horse (Tsen-tainte), a Kiowa chief during the second half of the nineteenth century, was noted among the tribe for his daring. Even in his teens he showed remarkable adeptness as an apprentice warrior. Due to his unusual strength, he became an outstanding horseman, able to snatch up a child while at a gallop. fashion show mall In the summer of 1867 White Horse joined a large party of Comanches and Kiowas on a revenge raid against the Navajos, who were then living in exile on the reservation near Fort Sumner, New Mexico. fashion show mall On the Canadian River near the Texas-New Mexico line, White Horse and some of his followers killed and scalped a Navajo warrior. Shortly afterward, the war party attacked a Navajo village on the Pecos River. Although White Horse participated in the council at Medicine fashion show mall Lodge Creek in Kansas, he soon cast his lot with the war faction and gained considerable notoriety during the early 1870s for his raids on Texas settlements. He and his followers made a raid on Fort Sill on June 12, 1870, following the annual tribal Sun Dance, and stole seventy-three mules from the post quartermaster. On June 22 they attacked a party of cattle drovers on the trail a few miles south of the fort. White Horse killed and scalped two men before a detachment of troops came to the Texans’ relief. Whites considered him the “most fashion show mall dangerous man” among the Kiowas. Shortly thereafter, fashion show mall White Horse led his band into Texas, killed Gottlieb Koozer, and took his wife and six children fashion show mall captive. Subsequently, on August fashion show mall 7 the Quaker Indian agent, Lawrie Tatum, reprimanded the guilty party and withheld the weekly rations fashion show mall until all captives and stolen stock were returned; the Koozers were ransomed for $100 each, and raids in the vicinity of Fort Sill were curtailed, but White Horse defiantly continued his attacks south of the Red River. On September 30 he ambushed a stagecoach en route to Fort Concho near Mount Margaret (also known as the Mound) and killed Martin Wurmser, a trooper who was serving as an escort. fashion show mall White Horse also participated in the Warren Wagontrain Raid on May 18, 1871, and helped carry the fatally wounded brave, Hau-tau, to safety during the fight; afterward he escaped arrest. While the imprisonment of chiefs fashion show mall Satanta and Big Tree momentarily curbed his raiding, he and Big Bow engineered another attack on a wagon train in what is now Crockett County on April 20, 1872, which resulted in the death of seventeen Mexican fashion show mall teamsters. On the way back from that foray, White Horse was wounded in the arm during a skirmish fashion show mall with Capt. N. Cooney’s Ninth Cavalry troops. On May 19 White Horse’s younger brother, fashion show mall Kim-pai-te, was killed in a fight with L. H. Luckett’s surveying crew near Round Timbers, twenty-five miles south of Fort Belknap. That event prompted White Horse to organize a revenge raid, and on June 9, with the help of Big Bow, he attacked the homestead of Abel Lee on the Clear Fork of the Brazos, about sixteen miles from Fort Griffin. Lee and his fourteen-year-old fashion show mall daughter Frances fashion show mall were fat