The Kiowa and the Southern Plains: Horse Trade, Sun Dance, and the Long Road to Reservation
By Daniel R. Whitfield
Length4h 49m
About this audiobook
Buffalo hunts. Battles. Long lines of families moving camp. These were the pictures young Kiowa men drew in the ledger books they were handed at Fort Marion, an old Spanish fort on the sea at St. Augustine, Florida, where the Army shipped seventy-two prisoners from the southern plains in 1875, at the end of the Red River War.
The world in those drawings had been a long time in the making. The Kiowa remember a beginning far to the north, in the Yellowstone country, when the people still walked everywhere and measured distance in sleeps. The drift south came next, and the horse, the alliance with the Comanche, the bands and raids and the summer Sun Dance, smallpox and the Texas frontier, and in 1867 the treaty council at Medicine Lodge, where Satanta told the commissioners he loved the land and the buffalo and would not part with them.
After Fort Marion came the reservation, the years when Washington set out to end the Sun Dance for good, the Kiowa Six, young painters of the 1920s who carried their people's images into galleries on both sides of the Atlantic, and the modern Kiowa Nation, governed today from Carnegie, Oklahoma. The prisoners in that Florida fort drew so the old life would not be lost. On paper, at least, it never was.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length4 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The People of the Moving Grass
2Chapter 2: The Horse and the Long Drift South
3Chapter 3: Bands, Raids, and the Sun Dance Year
4Chapter 4: Smallpox, Comanche Trade, and the Texas Frontier
5Chapter 5: The Civil War Years on the Southern Plains
Mostrar todos os capítulosVer menos
6Chapter 6: Medicine Lodge, 1867
7Chapter 7: The Road to the Red River War
8Chapter 8: The Red River War, 1874-1875
9Chapter 9: Fort Marion and the Ledger Drawings
10Chapter 10: Reservation Years and the Sun Dance Ban
11Chapter 11: The Kiowa Six and the Painter's Road
12Chapter 12: The Modern Kiowa Nation
13About the Author
More from Daniel R. Whitfield
Jim Thorpe: The Greatest Athlete and the Fight for His MedalsDaniel R. Whitfield4h 19m$6
Ninety Million Acres: The Dawes Act and the Theft of Indian LandDaniel R. Whitfield4h 47m$6
The Osage Empire Before OilDaniel R. Whitfield4h 38m$6
The World They Made: Native America in 1491Daniel R. Whitfield4h 24m$6
The Prophet and the Confederacy: Tenskwatawa, Tippecanoe, and the War for Native PowerDaniel R. Whitfield4h 17m$6
Ely Parker: The Seneca Engineer Who Wrote the Surrender at AppomattoxDaniel R. Whitfield3h 27m$6
The Chickasaw Wars: The Nation That Never SurrenderedDaniel R. Whitfield3h 55m$6
The Marshall Trilogy: How Three Supreme Court Cases Built Tribal SovereigntyDaniel R. Whitfield4h 42m$6
A Brief History of IntelligenceMax S. Bennett12h 18m4.6 (6.6K)$29 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m4.6 (16.7K)$26 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m4.6 (16.1K)$29 · $0.00
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m4.6 (6.5K)$29 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m4.6 (927)$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m4.6 (1.4K)$33 · $0.00
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m4.6 (3.2K)$33 · $0.00
Kings and PawnsHoward Bryant10h 9m4.6 (678)$29 · $0.00
No EscapeNury Turkel9h 30m4.6 (809)$28 · $0.00
Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal: Blood Trail To Hell: A Western Adventure NovelCasey Nash3h 42m4.6 (3.2K)$18 · $0.00
Fall and RiseMitchell Zuckoff17h 23m4.6 (9.8K)$40 · $0.00
The SurvivorJosef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin9h 22m4.6 (2.5K)$29 · $0.00
Always FaithfulThomas Schueman, Zainullah Zaki12h 12m4.6 (977)$29 · $0.00
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 (Annotated)Alexis de Tocqueville17h 25m4.6 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
All the Gallant MenDonald Stratton, Ken Gire5h 55m4.6 (11.8K)$24 · $0.00
Saint Joan (Annotated)George Bernard Shaw6h 20m4.6 (1.2K)$1.20 · $0.00
Medgar and MyrlieJoy-Ann Reid10h 52m4.5 (27.8K)$29 · $0.00
The History of the Peloponnesian War (Annotated)Thucydides24h 3m4.6 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
Where the Birds Never SingJack Sacco10h 31m4.6 (3.8K)$29 · $0.00
Serviceman J: The Untold Story of an NZSAS SoldierJamie Pennell5h 51m4.6 (452)$24 · $0.00
You may also like
The Day the World Ended at Little BighornJoseph M. Marshall III8h 18m4.1 (1.4K)$20
Life Among the Piutes: The First Autobiography of a Native American WomanSarah Winnemucca Hopkins9h 10m4.2 (1.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
Indian Boyhood & From the Deep Woods to CivilizationCharles Eastman9h 55m4.3 (355)$1.99 · $0.00
Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black HawkSauk chief Black Hawk5h 9m3.9 (2K)$1.99 · $0.00
Geronimo's Story of His Life (Illustrated Edition)Geronimo5h 10m4.1 (5.5K)$1 · $0.00
The NegroW. E. B. Du Bois6h 20m4.3 (477)$2.30
Geronimo's Story of His Life (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Geronimo5h 30m4.2 (5.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
Red Stick Rising: The Creek War, Horseshoe Bend, and the Making of Andrew JacksonDaniel Whitcomb4h 1m4.8 (10)$6
The SikhsJohn James Hood Gordon4h 19m3.9 (32)$1 · $0.00
The Ghost Dance and the Road to Wounded Knee: 1876-1890Daniel R. Whitlock4h 51m$6
Sir William Johnson and the Six NationsWilliam Elliot Griffis7h 27m$1 · $0.00
Pontiac and the Indian Wars: 3 Classic Essential BooksKirk Munroe, Francis Parkman, Edson Leone Whitney, F. M. Perry36h 14m$1.99 · $0.00
The Autobiographies & Biographies of the Most Influential Native AmericansGeronimo, Charles A. Eastman, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Black Hawk, Charles M. Scanlan35h 48m4.4 (12)$1 · $0.00
The Blackfeet Confederacy: Masters of the Northern PlainsDaniel R. Holloway4h 36m4.6 (12)$6
Slavery and the Coming of the Civil WarChristopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier1h 47m3.9 (149)$15
The Incredible Tales of Ohio (Illustrated Edition)William Dean Howells9h 10m$1.99 · $0.00
Mescalero Apache: Sierra Blanca and the Reservation WarsDaniel R. Whitlock4h 1m$6
The Negro in American FictionSterling A. Brown7h 5m$2.40
The Lava Beds: The Modoc War of 1872-1873Daniel Whitcomb4h 16m4.6 (12)$6
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORYJames R. Whitfield6h 25m$7 · $0.00