Nation
Kiowa · kiowa-comanche-apache · kiowa · K'oigu · Kwuda · Kiowa TribeKiowa
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In the record
The United States made 6 treaties and agreements that name Kiowa as a party, from Kiowa, Kataka, and Tawakaro at Fort Gibson (1837) to Jerome Agreement (Kiowa, Comanche, Apache), 1892 / Act of 1900.
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 3 cessions of land from Kiowa: about 43 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 3 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Reservation of the Comanche and Kiowa in Colorado, Kansas and Texas (area 478), about 126 million acres, ceded under Kiowa and Comanche at Little Arkansas River, Kansas (1865).
The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Kiowa: Medicine Lodge (1867) and Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903): allotment without the promised three-fourths consent. One court case turned on its rights: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock.
Today, Kiowa Tribe carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
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Self-names
- K'oiguKiowa (Latin)
Official names
Names in treaties and records
- KwudaKiowa (Latin)
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty or agreement43 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
3 cessions. Follow Kiowa through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Party to 6
- Kiowa, Kataka, and Tawakaro at Fort Gibson (1837)1837
- Treaty of Fort Atkinson with the Comanche, Kiowa, Apache, 18531853
- Kiowa and Comanche at Little Arkansas River, Kansas (1865)1865
- Treaty of Medicine Lodge (Kiowa and Comanche), 18671867
- Treaty of Medicine Lodge (Kiowa, Comanche and Apache), 18671867
- Jerome Agreement (Kiowa, Comanche, Apache), 1892 / Act of 19001892
Land recorded in this nation’s name 3, as named in the 1899 record
Named in 2
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
Sources
- govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-30/html/2026-01899.htmprimary record
Kiowa Tribe (previously listed as Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma)
- plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.na.055.htmlreference work
They now call themselves K'oigu, the "Principal People."
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