. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. rt for 1878. In the fall of1877, under Agent Haworth, as an inducement to the Indians to aban-don their roaming habit, the government built houses for ten prominentchiefs of the three tribes, including Stumbling-bear, Gaapiatan (Heid-sick), Gunsadalte (Cat), and Sun-boy, of the Kiowa, and White manand Taha, of the Apache. These were the first Indian houses everbuilt upon the reservation, excepting two erected by the military. Atfirst the new owners continued to live in the tipis, which they pre
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. rt for 1878. In the fall of1877, under Agent Haworth, as an inducement to the Indians to aban-don their roaming habit, the government built houses for ten prominentchiefs of the three tribes, including Stumbling-bear, Gaapiatan (Heid-sick), Gunsadalte (Cat), and Sun-boy, of the Kiowa, and White manand Taha, of the Apache. These were the first Indian houses everbuilt upon the reservation, excepting two erected by the military. Atfirst the new owners continued to live in the tipis, which they pre-ferred from long usage, but by the further gift of beds and chairs theywere induced to go into the houses. An attempt to get the Indiansto cut the logs and do a part of the work themselves under instruc-tion seems to have been a failure. The houses were reasonably goodframe structures of three rooms, having doors, glass windows, andsubstantial double fireplaces and chimneys of stone; they cost Fia. 163—Winter 1877-78—Cainp at SignalmonntaiD; hunt onPecan creek. MOONEV] A TO-T AIN KILLED 343. FiQ. 164—S11 m m e r 1878—Re-peated sun dance. eacb (Report, 96). lu 1886 there were nine Kiowa families living inhouses [Report, 97), but a few years later most of these dwellings werevacant or occui)ied by white renters, the Indian owners being againin the tipis. SUMMER IS78 Aduldii Kddo, Eepeated sun dauce. This is the second recordedinstance of this kind, the first having occurred in ISili. Ou the 8et-tan calendar it is indicated by the figure oftwo adjoining medicine lodges, and in the Anliocalendar by a double-forked medicine pole. Thetwo dances were held ou the Nortii fork of Redriver. Part of the Kiowa had gone to the plainson the western part of the reservation to huntbutialo, while the others remained at home. Eachparty, unknown to the other, promised to makea sun dance, in consequence of which one dancewas held at the regular period, after which theleaves were renewed an
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