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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 In the 1860s and '70s, one of the best-known Plains Indians was the Kiowa war chief Satanta. In the East, he was seen as the orator of his people, a sort of rustic philosopher who represented them in treaty negotiations, and his observations on Indian-white relations were often repeated in great metropolitan newspapers. In Texas, he was regarded as the architect of the Warren Wagon Train Massacre in which seven teamsters were killed–a murderer who deservedly had been condemned to die, but who, at the last minute, had been given life imprisonment due to Reconstruction politics. The white people refused to let the kiowas keep there hunting grounds.They hunted baffolo. He got a famous shield from a Indian chief.Satanta gave his shield to his son. Satanta died in the year 1878. He signed 1867 Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty. As a young man Satanta participated in campaigns against the Cheyennes and the Utes to protect Kiowa hunting grounds.His name meant whitebear. He was a chief for the Kiowa Indian tribe. He rode horses.The Kiowas stole children an raised them as part of the tribe. Satanta figured prominently in the intertribal warfare of the 1850s, as well as in treaty negotiations with the U.S. government. Satanta was already an adult of distinction when he entered the history of the southern Plains. What is known of his early life is based on tribal tradition passed down through generations of Kiowas.When or where he was born is uncertain, but based on a general agreement about his it may be assumed he was born between 1815 and 1818, when his people ranged between the North Platte River in what is now western Nebraska and the Canadian River of what is now north Texas and central Oklahoma. tap and hold to changethis text! Satanta The white people refused to let the kiowas keep there hunting grounds.The kiowas hunted baffolo. He got a famous shield from a Indian chief.Satanta gave his shield to his son. Kiowa boys began training as warriors at a very early age and were sent out on their own as soon as they proved capable. By the age of 20, most had married and begun families of their own. Satanta, however, was not allowed this early freedom; Kiowa tradition holds that Red Tipi was so proud of his son that he kept Satanta under strict supervision long after most young men would have gone out on their own. When his father finally released him into the world, Satanta was almost 30 and thoroughly prepared for his role in the Kiowa Nation.
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