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The study assembles pictographic calendars, oral histories, and comparative tribal records to produce a chronological account of the Kiowa people. It begins with an overview of indigenous calendar systems and the methods used to fix dates, then offers a tribal sketch covering origins and migrations. Narrative sections trace alliances, horse culture, epidemics, raiding and warfare, and changing relations with neighboring peoples and Euro-American agents. The work records treaties, military engagements, removal to reservation life, and subsequent efforts at education and leadership, while analyzing the pictorial calendars as historical sources.
1 See the list of authorities cited at the end of the memoir.
2 The name given is a Comanche corruption.
3 The cross references are usually to the Kiowa form which occurs in the text, and not necessarily to the principle form of the word.
Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.