Kiowa

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Lifestyle

Location

Food

Shelter

Clothing

Distinct Fact

Range

Relations w/ tribes

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Location

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• The Kiowa lived in the panhandle region of the Great Plains.

• The Great Plains region of Texas had little water for growing crops, and even less trees to build permanent houses.

• As a result, the Kiowa had a nomadic, hunter-gather lifetstyle

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Lifestyle

Photo Credit: Kiowa Buffalo Hunt by Otho Stubbs. Courtesy of Otho Stubbs.

• The Kiowa were nomadic, meaning they moved their villages from place to place following the animal herds they depended on for food.

• An entire village could be moved in about 30 minutes. (TSHA).

• The Kiowa, along with other Plains tribes, would pack up all of their belongs on a travois that would then be dragged behind a horse.

Looks like the buffalo have moved on.

Time to pack everything on the travois so we can follow them.

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Food

Photo Credit: Kiowa Buffalo Hunt by Otho Stubbs. Courtesy of Otho Stubbs.

• The Kiowa depended on the buffalo for food, shelter, and clothing
• In addition to buffalo, they hunted smaller animals and gathered wild fruits, nuts, and berries.

• They would often times trade buffalo hides for corn, beans, and squash that were grown by sedentary Native American tribes in Eastern Kansas (https://www.kshs.org/teachers/read_kansas/pdfs/m05card02.pdf)

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Shelter

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• Because the Kiowa were nomadic, it was important that their houses could be assembled and dissassembled quickly so that they could quickly follow the buffalo herds.

• As a result, the Kiowa lived in huge tent like shelters called tipis.

• An entire village could be moved in about 30 minutes. (TSHA).

• Each tipi was made up of about 8-15 buffalo hides and 15-25 wood poles (NPS)

• Each tipi, depedning on size, could house anywhere from 8-40 people in it (NPS)

• The Kiowa were well known for their beautifully painted tipis.

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Clothing

• Traditional Kiowa clothing was made out of animal hide, usally buffalo or deer (buck skin)

• Men would dress in leggins and breechcloths, with our without shirts

• Women would wear full lengh dresses, often times with elaborate bead and quill work

• Both men and women would wear moccasins

• Both men and women would wrap themselves in buffalo robes for warmth in the winter

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Women's Clothing

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Distinct Fact

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Range

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Relations w/ tribes