Big Bow
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Military History
- Subcategories: Generals, Military Officers, Soldiers, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American Indian History
Article abstract: During the Central Plains Indian wars, Big Bow was the most militant Kiowa chief and the last to surrender to reservation settlement.
Big Bow's parentage and heritage are unknown. He gained an early reputation as one of the most hostile and violent Indian war chiefs after killing and scalping countless whites. With Big Tree, Satanta, Satank, and Lone Wolf, he fought settlers in Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
Big Bow refused to honor the Medicine Lodge Treaty (1867), which assigned Indians to two reservations in southern Kansas and which...
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