Kiowa Tribe

Cultural area: Great Plains

Linguistic group: Kiowan

Federal Status: recognized

Kiowas Societies: Buffalo Doctor Society; Owl Doctor Society; Sun Dance Shield Society; Eagle Shield Society; only men were members of these societies. There was one society of a select older group of women known as Bear Women Society.

Pictoral history of the tribe known as winter and summer counts

History
1781 a smallpox epidemic killed an estimated 2,000 Kiowa

1785 Left the Black Hills areadue to conflict with Cheyenne-Arapaho and Sioux.

Unique Military advancement; some soldiers known as "Dog Soldiers"

1790 Southern Kiowa move with Comanche to what is now New Mexico.