Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma is a federally recognized tribe with headquarters in Carnegie, Oklahoma. Their tribal jurisdiction includes Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Kiowa, Tillman, and Washita counties. Their language is part of the Tanoan family and is still spoken today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiowa
Leaving their ancestral homelands near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River of western Montana in the late seventeenth century, the horse-seeking Kiowa and affiliated Plains Apache had migrated southeast through Crow country and had reached the Black Hills of Wyoming/South Dakota by 1775. Then in the early nineteenth century the two peoples had been pushed south of the Platte to the Arkansas River by the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne. The new Kiowa and Plains Apache homeland lay in the southwestern plains adjacent to the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado and western Kansas and the Red River drainage of the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma. Characterized by mild winters and ample grazing, the region teemed with bison and feral horse herds, and the Kiowa developed an equestrian, bison-hunting culture. The Kiowa and Plains Apache initially skirmished with the more populous Comanche before creating a confederation between 1790 and 1806, and by 1840 the Kiowa had forged alliances with the Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Osage.
Provisions of the 1865 Little Arkansas Treaty forced the Kiowa and Comanche to relinquish lands in Kansas and New Mexico, and the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty established a 2.8 million acre reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. There the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache were confined following their subjugation at the end of the Red River War in May 1875. Kiowa-Comanche-Apache (KCA) Reservation lands were allotted in 1901 and 1906 following the controversial 1892 Jerome Agreement and the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903). In the year 2000 more than four thousand out of approximately 12,500 Kiowa lived near the towns of Anadarko, Fort Cobb, and Carnegie, in Caddo and Kiowa counties, Oklahoma.
http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=KI017
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the Kiowa remain one of Oklahoma’s most vital American Indian tribes. Today, the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma works effectively and efficiently to provide their tribal members with resources and programs that enrich their lives. These programs include commerce, education, government, and health with services ranging from child care, food distribution, transportation, and housing.
https://kiowatribeofoklahoma.godaddysites.com/home.html
Matthew M. Komalty (Chairman)
Tel: (580) 654-1729
Fax: (580) 654-8714
PO Box 369
Carnegie, OK73015-0369
Website: http://www.kiowatribe.org
Leaving their ancestral homelands near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River of western Montana in the late seventeenth century, the horse-seeking Kiowa and affiliated Plains Apache had migrated southeast through Crow country and had reached the Black Hills of Wyoming/South Dakota by 1775. Then in the early nineteenth century the two peoples had been pushed south of the Platte to the Arkansas River by the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne. The new Kiowa and Plains Apache homeland lay in the southwestern plains adjacent to the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado and western Kansas and the Red River drainage of the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma. Characterized by mild winters and ample grazing, the region teemed with bison and feral horse herds, and the Kiowa developed an equestrian, bison-hunting culture. The Kiowa and Plains Apache initially skirmished with the more populous Comanche before creating a confederation between 1790 and 1806, and by 1840 the Kiowa had forged alliances with the Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Osage.
Provisions of the 1865 Little Arkansas Treaty forced the Kiowa and Comanche to relinquish lands in Kansas and New Mexico, and the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty established a 2.8 million acre reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. There the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache were confined following their subjugation at the end of the Red River War in May 1875. Kiowa-Comanche-Apache (KCA) Reservation lands were allotted in 1901 and 1906 following the controversial 1892 Jerome Agreement and the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903). In the year 2000 more than four thousand out of approximately 12,500 Kiowa lived near the towns of Anadarko, Fort Cobb, and Carnegie, in Caddo and Kiowa counties, Oklahoma.
The Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma is headquartered in Carnegie, Oklahoma. Their tribal jurisdiction includes Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Kiowa, Tillman, and Washita counties.
100 Kiowa way
Carnegie, OK 73015
The Kiowa language is a member of the Kiowa-Tanoan language family. The relationship was first proposed by Smithsonian linguist John P. Harrington in 1910, and was definitively established in 1967.[10] Parker McKenzie, born 1897, was a noted authority on the Kiowa language, learning English only when he began school. He worked with John P. Harrington on the Kiowa language. He went on to discuss the etymology of words and insights of how the Kiowa language changed to incorporate new items of material culture. McKenzie’s letters are in the National Anthropological Archives on pronunciation and grammar of the Kiowa language.[11]
Additionally, Kiowa were one of the numerous nations across the US, Canada and Mexico that spoke Plains Sign Talk. Originally a trade language, it became a language within its own right that remained in use across North America.[12]
Current Info:
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the Kiowa remain one of Oklahoma’s most vital American Indian tribes. Today, the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma works effectively and efficiently to provide their tribal members with resources and programs that enrich their lives. These programs include commerce, education, government, and health with services ranging from child care, food distribution, transportation, and housing.
As of 2011[update], the tribe owns one smoke shop, two casinos, the Kiowa Red River Casino, Morningstar Steakhouse and Grill, Morningstar Buffet, The Winner’s Circle restaurant in Devol, Oklahoma, and Kiowa Bingo near Carnegie, Oklahoma
Matthew M. Komalty (Chairman)
Tel: (580) 654-1729
Fax: (580) 654-8714
PO Box 369
Carnegie, OK73015-0369
Website: http://www.kiowatribe.org
Or
100 Kiowa Way
Carnegie OK 73015
