A KIOWA'S ODYSSEY

A Kiowa's Odyssey recreates a sketchbook of drawings that chronicle the experiences of seventy-two Southern Plains Indians captured by the U.S. Army in Oklahoma in 1875. To stem their ability to lead raids against white settlers, the army exiled these Arapaho, Com anche, Cheyenne, and Kiowa Indians more than 1,000 miles, by wagon, train, and steamboat, to Fort Marion, Florida. The prisoners, da zed by travel and unfamiliar surroundings, quickly found themselves subject to a process of Westernization and assimilation. Under t he direct...[Read more]