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Big Bow (Kiowa leader)

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Walls, a violent struggle in an attempt to push invaders out from hunting buffalo on their tribal lands. His defiance and frustration against the white-washing of his land and traditions revealed itself through his violent endeavors and actions. So committed to bloodshed to fight for his beliefs, Thomas Battey, a Quaker missionary close to the tribe, commented on his ferocious countenance. Determined to preserve his lands, he was devoted to violence as an enforcer. When the Kiowas were forced onto their
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Fort Clark, led by capt. N. Cooney and lt. F. R. Vincent, got the Indians, but were forced to retreat after suffering two casualties (lt. Vincent himself, deadly wounded, and a "Buffalo Soldier"; ten Indians (four in the assault on the wagon train and six in the fight against the "Buffalo Soldiers") were reported to have been killed.
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Committed to anti-white ideals and a path of resistive violence, Big Bow refused to sign the Treaty of Medicine Lodge in 1867, which relocated the Kiowa and Comanche to live together on a reservation in western Oklahoma and Texas. Although failed, Big Bow also participated in the Battle of Adobe
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On April 20, 1872 Zepko-ete and Tsen-tainte, with about one hundred of their Kiowa warriors and Comanche allies, attacked a government wagon train at Howard Wells station, along the San Antonio - El Paso trail, killing 17 Mexicans and kidnapping a woman; two companies (A and H) of 9th Cavalry from
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But Satanta, while asking the Indian Agent on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation for ammunition and supplies, bragged that he had led the war party at Salt Creek Prairie, and told Satank and young war leader
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Levy, Jerrold E. "Kiowa." Handbook of North American Indians. Ed. William C. Sturtevant and Raymond J. DeMallie. Vol. 13. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 2001. 907-25. Print.
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didn't include him in the number of Kiowa chiefs and warriors to be deported to Fort Marion, Florida, and Big Bow and his family settled near
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Anderson, Allen H. "Big Bow." Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association, 12 June 2010. Web. 02 Dec. 2015.
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Hoxie, Frederick E. Encyclopedia of North American Indians. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Print.
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He was active in the Southern Plains, in the present day states of
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war leader during the 19th century, an associate of
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Index

Zepko-ete

Kiowa
Kiowa
Guipago
Satanta
Kiowa
Indian Territory
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Warren Wagon Train Raid
Satank
Mamanti
Tsen-tainte
White Horse
Ado-ete
Big Tree
Ado-ete
Big Tree
Tsen-tainte
White Horse
Guipago
Quanah
Comanche Campaign
Red River War
Tene-angopte
reservation
Tene-angopte
Rainy Mountain

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