OKLAHOMA CITY — In 1920, a distinctive tipi painted with horizontal stripes appeared in a silent film called Daughter of Dawn. Notable for its 300-member cast of Kiowa and Comanches who brought ...

Local Rare 1920 film featuring 300 Comanche and Kiowa actors to premiere Saturday in Kansas WICHITA. A movie nine decades in the making will see its 21st-century premiere on Saturday in Larned, Kan.

From tipi to mainstream. Horace Monroe Poolaw was born in 1906 in Mountain View, Oklahoma, a small town that grew up around the railroad. ... Horace’s father, Kiowa George, ...

The Kiowa lived for centuries on the Great Plains, hunter-gatherers who, like many tribes in the region, relied on the bison hunt for their way of life.. Like the neighboring Comanche and Plains ...

Satanta, a Kiowa war chief, was perhaps the best-known Indian on the southern plains during the late 19th century. ... Red Tipi, was a medicine man and keeper of the Kiowa medicine bundles.

In 1916, when a canvas tepee was made, the paintings on the Tipi with Battle Pictures were re-created from memory by prominent Kiowa artists Stephen Mopope, James Auchiah, and Silverhorn.