Calendar history of the Kiowa Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 129-444))
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-96, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 129—444
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY—SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LVII
THE KIOWA RANGE SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE PLAINS TRIBES IN 1832.
CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA INDIANS By James Mooney
The desire to preserve to future ages the memory of past achievements is a universal human instinct, as witness the clay tablets of old Chaldea, the hieroglyphs of the obelisks, our countless thousands of manuscripts and printed volumes, and the gossiping old story-teller of the village or the backwoods cabin. The reliability of the record depends chiefly on the truthfulness of the recorder and the adequacy of the method employed. In Asia, the cradle of civilization, authentic history goes back thousands of years; in Europe the record begins much later, while in America the aboriginal narrative, which may be considered as fairly authentic, is all comprised within a thousand years.
The peculiar and elaborate systems by means of which the more cultivated ancient nations of the south recorded their histories are too well known to students to need more than a passing notice here. It was known that our own tribes had various ways of depicting their mythology, their totems, or isolated facts in the life of the individual or nation, but it is only within a few years that it was even suspected that they could have anything like continuous historical records, even in embryo.
The fact is now established, however, that pictographic records covering periods of from sixty to perhaps two hundred years or more do, or did, exist among several tribes, and it is entirely probable that every leading mother tribe had such a record of its origin and wanderings, the pictured narrative being compiled by the priests and preserved with sacred care through all the shifting vicissitudes of savage life until lost or destroyed in the ruin that overwhelmed the native governments at the coming of the white man. Several such histories are now known, and as the aboriginal field is still but partially explored, others may yet come to light.
James Mooney
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INTRODUCTION
AGE OF ABORIGINAL AMERICAN RECORDS
ABORIGINAL AMERICAN CALENDARS
THE WALAM OLUM OF THE DELAWARES
THE DAKOTA CALENDARS
OTHER TRIBAL RECORDS
THE KIOWA CALENDARS
COMPARATIVE IMPORTANCE OF EVENTS RECORDED
METHOD OF FIXING DATES
SCOPE OF THE MEMOIR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SKETCH OF THE KIOWA TRIBE
TRIBAL SYNONYMY
TRIBAL SIGN
LINGUISTIC AFFINITY
TRIBAL NAMES
GENESIS AND MIGRATION
EARLY ALLIANCE WITH THE CROWS
THE ASSOCIATED KIOWA APACHE
THE HISTORICAL PERIOD
SOCIOLOGY OF THE KIOWA
POPULATION
RELIGION OF THE KIOWA
THE NADIISHA-DENA OR KIOWA APACHE
TRIBAL SYNONYMY
TRIBAL SIGN
ORIGIN AND HISTORY
FIRST OFFICIAL AMERICAN NOTICE
TREATIES
DELEGATION TO WASHINGTON, 1872—FRIENDLY DISPOSITION
PROGRESS TOWARD CIVILIZATION—DEATH OF PACER, 1875
RECENT HISTORY AND PRESENT CONDITION
POPULATION
THE ANNUAL CALENDARS, 1833—1892
WINTER 1832—33
SUMMER 1833
WINTER 1833—34
SUMMER 1834
WINTER 1834—35
SUMMER 1835
WINTER 1835—36
SUMMER 1836
WINTER 1836—37
SUMMER 1837
WINTER 1837—38
SUMMER 1838
WINTER 1838—39
SUMMER 1839
WINTER 1839—40
SUMMER 1840
WINTER 1840—41
SUMMER 1841
WINTER 1841—42
SUMMER 1842
WINTER 1842—43
SUMMER 1843
WINTER 1843—44
SUMMER 1844
WINTER 1844—45
SUMMER 1845
WINTER 1845—46
SUMMER 1846
WINTER 1846—47
SUMMER 1847
WINTER 1847—48
SUMMER 1848
WINTER 1848—49
SUMMER, 1849
WINTER 1849—50
SUMMER 1850
WINTER 1850-51
SUMMER 1851
WINTER 1851—52
SUMMER 1852
WINTER 1852—53
SUMMER 1853
WINTER 1853—54
SUMMER 1854
WINTER 1854—55
SUMMER 1855
WINTER 1855—56
SUMMER 1856
WINTER 1856—57
SUMMER 1857
WINTER 1857—58
SUMMER 1858
WINTER 1858—59
SUMMER 1859
WINTER 1859—60
SUMMER 1860
WINTER 1860—61
SUMMER 1861
WINTER 1861—62
SUMMER 1862
WINTER 1862—63
SUMMER 1863
WINTER 1863—64
SUMMER 1864
WINTER, 1864—65
SUMMER 1865
WINTER 1865—66
SUMMER 1866
WINTER 1866—67
SUMMER 1867
WINTER 1867—68
SUMMER 1868
WINTER 1868—69
SUMMER 1869
WINTER 1869—70
SUMMER 1870
WINTER 1870—71
SUMMER 1871
WINTER 1871—72 (1872—73)
SUMMER 1872
WINTER 1872—73
SUMMER 1873
WINTER 1873—74
SUMMER 1874
WINTER 1874—75
SUMMER 1875
WINTER 1875—76
SUMMER 1876
WINTER 1876—77
SUMMER 1877
WINTER 1877—78
SUMMER 1878
WINTER 1878—79
SUMMER 1879
WINTER 1879—80
SUMMER 1880
WINTER 1880—81
SUMMER 1881
WINTER 1881—82
SUMMER 1882
WINTER 1882—83
SUMMER 1883
WINTER 1883—84
SUMMER 1884
WINTER 1884—85
SUMMER 1885
WINTER 1885—86
SUMMER 1886
WINTER 1886—87
SUMMER 1887
WINTER 1887—88
SUMMER 1888
WINTER 1888—89
SUMMER 1889
WINTER 1889—90
SUMMER 1890
WINTER 1890—91
SUMMER, 1891
WINTER 1891—92
SUMMER 1892
KIOWA CHRONOLOGY
TERMS EMPLOYED
THE SEASONS
KIOWA MOONS OR MONTHS
MOONS OR MONTHS OF OTHER TRIBES
MILITARY AND TRADING POSTS, MISSIONS, ETC, WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE ACCOMPANYING MAP
THE KIOWA LANGUAGE
CHARACTERISTICS
KIOWA-ENGLISH GLOSSARY
AUTHORITIES CITED
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
INDEX
FOOTNOTES
