Bad Medicine and Good: Tales of the Kiowas

Description

One of the great tribes of the Southwest Plains| the Kiowas were militantly defiant toward white intruders in their territory and killed more during seventy-five years of raiding than any other tribe. Now settled in southwestern Oklahoma| they are today one of the most progressive Indian groups in the area. In Bad Medicine and Good| Wilbur Sturtevant Nye collects forty-four stories covering Kiowa history from the 1700s through the 1940s| all gleaned from interviews with Kiowas (who actually took part in the events or recalled them from the accounts of their elders)| and from the notes of Captain Hugh L Scott at Fort Sill. They cover such topics as the organization and conduct of a raiding party| the brave deeds of war chiefs| the treatment of white captives| the Grandmother gods| the Kiowa sun dance| and the problems of adjusting to white society.