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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 825 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KIOWAS , a tribe and stock of See also:

North See also:American See also:Indians. Their former range was around the See also:Arkansas and See also:Canadian See also:rivers, in See also:Indian Territory (See also:Oklahoma), See also:Colorado and New See also:Mexico. A fierce See also:people, they made raids upon the settlers in western See also:Texas until 1868, when they were placed on a See also:reservation in Indian Territory. In 1874 they See also:broke out again, but in the following See also:year were finally subdued. In number about 1200, and settled in Oklahoma, they are the See also:sole representatives of the Kiowan linguistic stock. See J. Mooney, " See also:Calendar See also:History of the Kiowa Indians," 17th See also:Report of See also:Bureau of American See also:Ethnology (See also:Washington, 1898).

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