Dover Publications, 1969. — 180 p. This exciting autobiography of Jim Whitewolf, a Kiowa Apache born in the second half of the 19th-century, offers an excellent inside-look at Indian culture. An ethnological classic, it details childhood, tribal customs, contact with whites, government attitudes toward tribe, and much more. Dr Charles S. Brant (1919 - 1991) is an american...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. — 360 p. Plains Indians were artists as well as warriors, and Silver Horn (1860-1940), a Kiowa artist from the early reservation period, may well have been the most prolific Plains Indian artist of all time. Known also as Haungooah, his Kiowa name, Silver Horn was a man of remarkable skill and talent. Working in graphite, colored pencil,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 402 p. Directed by anthropologist Alexander Lesser in 1935, the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology sponsored a field school in southwestern Oklahoma that focused on the neighboring Kiowas. During two months, graduate students compiled more than 1,300 p. of single-spaced field notes derived from cross-interviewing thirty-five Kiowas. These...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 342 p. Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century. During the height of the horse-and-bison culture, Kiowa beliefs were founded in the notion of daudau, a force permeating the universe that was...
University of Texas Press, 2009. — 366 p. — ISBN10: 0292718780. Examining the place names, geographical knowledge, and cultural associations of the Kiowa from the earliest recorded sources to the present, "Kiowa Ethnogeography" is the most in-depth study of its kind in the realm of Plains Indian tribal analysis. Linking geography to political and social changes, William Meadows...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 472 p. Warrior culture has long been an important facet of Plains Indian life. For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special significance. They serve not only to honor veterans and celebrate and publicize martial achievements but also to foster strong role models for younger tribal members. To this day, these societies serve to...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. — 528 p. For many Plains Indians, being a warrior and veteran has long been the traditional pathway to male honor and status. Men and boys formed military societies to celebrate victories in war, to perform community service, and to prepare young men for their role as warriors and hunters. By preserving cultural forms contained in song,...
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. — 458 p. — ((Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, No 40). This guide provides an overview of the extensive anthropological collections associated with the Kiowa Indians of Oklahoma housed in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The vast majority of these collections are found in the Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology,...
University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 162 p. In this in-depth interdisciplinary study, Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote reveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribe's rich history of expressive culture to assert its identity at a time of profound challenge. Examining traditional forms such as beadwork, metalwork, painting, and dance, Tone-Pah-Hote argues that their creation and exchange...
University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 162 p. In this in-depth interdisciplinary study, Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote reveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribe's rich history of expressive culture to assert its identity at a time of profound challenge. Examining traditional forms such as beadwork, metalwork, painting, and dance, Tone-Pah-Hote argues that their creation and exchange...
With a foreword by Clyde Kluckhohn. — Cambridge, MA : Harvard University, Botanical Museum, 1939. — xiii, 110 p. : ill. (map), plates. This monograph by two Harvard botanists brings together notes, discussion, and comparative data on over one hundred Kiowa economic plants. The comparative data are drawn from the literature on various North American tribes and serve to orient...
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