Kiowa and Bison Story

Somehow, this Kiowa story seems the most appropriate for today.





When a Kiowa woman named Old Lady Horse looked back on the past, she recalled the not so distant time when all the necessities of life had been provided to her people by the bison. Hides for shelter and clothing, bones for tools, blood and meat for food. "The buffalo were the life of the Kiowas," she said.

When Europeans came to the Plains to build railroads and raise cattle, the bison did their best to protect the Kiowa...