Kiowa or Ǥáuigú people are a Native American tribe and an Indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado
Three Kiowa men in 1898
J.T. Goombi, former Kiowa tribal chairman and first vice-president of the National Congress of American Indians
Ledger drawing of mounted Kiowa hunters hunting pronghorn antelope with bows and lance, c.1875–1877.
Kiowa hunting elk on horseback, c. 1875–1877
The Plains Apache are a small Southern Athabaskan tribe who live on the Southern Plains of North America, in close association with the linguistically unrelated Kiowa Tribe. Today, they are headquarte
Kiowa
…is in danger of extinction, with only 20 speakers as of 2012. As of 2024 the Kiowa have a Kiowa Language Department. In the early 18th century, the Plains Apache lived around the upper Missouri River and maintained close connections to the Kiowa. They were ethnically different and spoke different languages. The…
Vanessa Paukeigope Jennings
Essa-queta, Plains Apache chief
Richard Aitson, poet and award-winning beadworker, was both Kiowa and Plains Apache