In the Winter Campaign of 1868 – 69 he attacked the Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Comanche tribes in their winter quarters, taking their supplies and livestock and killing those who resisted, driving the rest back into their reservations.

Other Plains tribes kept pictorial records, known as " winter counts ", however the Kiowa calendar system is unique recording two events for each year, offering a finer grained record of the passage of time and twice as many entries for any given period.

The Kiowa, to the contrary, recorded in their annual record, painted on buffalo skin, that the period was " muddy travel winter, the time when the Kiowas repelled Kit Carson.

The largest Army victory came when Mackenzie found a large village of Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne, including their horses and winter food supply, in upper Palo Duro Canyon.

The Blackfeet, Mandan, Kiowa, Lakota, and other Plains tribes used winter counts extensively.

Kiowa winter counts usually feature two marks per year – one for winter and one marking the summer Sun Dance.

Also in 1937, Whorf and his friend G. L. Trager, published a paper in which they elaborated on the Azteco-Tanoan language family, proposed originally by Sapir as a family comprising the Uto-Aztecan and the Kiowa-Tanoan languages —( the Tewa and Kiowa languages ).

* 1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.

Some anthropologists believe that the Apache and the Navajo were pushed south and west into what is now New Mexico and Arizona by pressure from other Great Plains Indians, such as the Comanche and Kiowa.

Twenty miles northwest is the D. H. Lawrence Ranch ( originally known as the Kiowa Ranch and now owned by the University of New Mexico ), the home of the English novelist in the 1920s.

In 1837 the Kiowa ( and other tribes ) signed a treaty of friendship with the US that established a framework for legal system administered by the US.

Prior to the arrival of foreign settlers, the area that would later become Kimble County was inhabited by several Native American groups, including the Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, and Lipan Apache.

Historic tribes encountered by Europeans included the Kiowa, Comanche and Lipan Apache.

Carson and several hundred cavalry officers were greatly outnumbered by Kiowa and Comanche and forced to retreat.

Built on former reservation lands of the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache in Indian Territory, Comanche County was open for settlement on August 16, 1901 by lottery.

Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, Kiowa County has remained a prohibition, or " dry ", county.

The particular medicine lodge, mystery house or sacred tabernacle from which the Medicine Lodge River received its name was in reality an arbor-like shelter of tree trunks and leafy branches which was erected by the Kiowa people for the celebration of their annual sun dance in the summer of 1866.

The area surrounded by Anadarko was opened to settlement by a 1901 land lottery affecting the Kiowa, Comanche, Wichita and Caddo lands.

Indian City USA, now owned by the Kiowa Tribe, is located 2 – 1 / 2 miles southeast of Anadarko.

Fire and Rescue is provided by the Lake Kiowa Volunteer Fire Department, and is policed by a mix of private security, Cooke County Sheriff's Department, and Gainesville Police Department.

Lake Kiowa is governed by an elected board, with a Community Manager system.

Lake Kiowa is run for, and by, the residents.

This incident involved the killing of two family members and the kidnapping of five more by Kiowa Indians.

The settlement of Mason grew up around Fort Mason which was established by the United States War Department as a front-line defense against Kiowa, Lipan Apache and Comanche, on July 6, 1851.

Although Native American tribes didn't use echinacea to prevent the common cold, some Plains tribes did use echinacea to treat some of the symptoms that could be caused by the common cold: The Kiowa used it for coughs and sore throats, the Cheyenne for sore throats, the Pawnee for headaches, and many tribes including the Lakotah used it as an analgesic.

As many as 200 American troops, later aided by OH-58 Kiowa helicopters and an A-10 " Warthog ", surrounded and fired upon the house, thus killing Uday with Qusay and Qusay's son.

The site, on Big Sandy Creek in Kiowa County, is now preserved by the National Park Service.

Apache Indians lived in Palo Duro at the time, but they were later displaced by Comanche and Kiowa tribes, who had the advantage of owning horses brought over by the Spanish.

Their tribal jurisdictional area covers parts of Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Jefferson, Kiowa, and Stephens Counties in Oklahoma.

* 1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.

There are " trickster stories ", about the different trickster figures of the tribes ( Saynday for the Kiowa ; Coyote for the Navajo ; and so on, who were both helpful and dangerous figures in the belief.

Another Kiowa beadworker, Teri Greeves has won top honors for her beadwork, which consciously integrates both traditional and contemporary motifs, such as beaded dancers on Converse high-tops.

Because the Pawnee people were old enemies of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche and Kiowa tribes, instead of fighting against Westward expansion, they served with the army for fourteen years between 1864 and 1877, earning a reputation as being a well trained unit, especially in tracking and reconnaissance.

Historically, the area was a hunting ground for the Wichita, Osage, and Kiowa tribes.

Three sites in Kiowa, Caddo and Comanche Counties were selected for county seats with Lawton designated as the Comanche County seat.

Kiowa County has only one township, and none of the cities within the county are considered governmentally independent ; all figures for the township include those of the cities.

The county was named for the Kiowa Nation of Native Americans.

Locals are often familiar with a few basic Indian words, such as haw-nay, Kiowa for " no.

Three sites in Kiowa, Caddo and Comanche Counties were selected for county seats with Lawton designated as the Comanche County seat.

By the terms of the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 a reservation that included the Big Pasture was set-aside for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache.

The population quickly bounced back into the thousands, and the town gained national attention in 1871 when two Kiowa chiefs, Satanta and Big Tree, were tried for murder there.

* Armed Aerial Scout a U. S. Army replacement program for the OH-58 Kiowa.

Their names for the monolith include: Aloft on a Rock ( Kiowa ), Bear's House ( Cheyenne, Crow ), Bear's Lair ( Cheyenne, Crow ), Daxpitcheeaasáao, " Home of bears " ( Crow ), Bear's Lodge ( Cheyenne, Lakota ), Bear's Lodge Butte ( Lakota ), Bear's Tipi ( Arapaho, Cheyenne ), Tree Rock ( Kiowa ), and Grizzly Bear Lodge ( Lakota ).