Just over twenty years ago, I brought broadcast quality video and audio equipment to my Grandfather’s home in Meers, Oklahoma to preserve precious stories from Kiowa Grandparents. My grandpa, C. E. Rowell lived his life within five miles of where he had been born near Jimmy Creek Spring; the land allotted to his Grandpa Jimmy…
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Kiowa History in Pictures
Most Plains Indian Tribe’s history were in oral traditions; told and shared from one generation to the next. Of the Plains Indians, only four tribes; the Kiowa, Lakota, Blackfeet and Mandan added to their oral storytelling tradition with picture markings of significant events that occurred to the tribe. The tribes recorded their history in pictures….
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Just over twenty years ago Tribal Elder Atwater Onco told me, “It was time.” I was to have a Kiowa Name. Atwater said, my Name had come to him after our time together, then confirmed in a dream. Kiowa Naming Ceremony My father started a fire early that morning. As it blazed, Grandpa fed resin-rich…
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