Satanta
Kiowa
Photograph by William Soule
Copyright 1868

"Set-tainte, Kiowa Chief (1830-1878) Satanta, or
White Bear, perhaps the most famous Kiowa chief,
was known as the "Orator of the Plains." He participated
in the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867. yet he continued to
fight against White incursions, for which he was eventually
imprisioned. This proud, dignified and daring wartrior did not
adjust to life behind bars and committed suicide by jumping
out of a prison window in Huntsville, Texas on October 11, 1878.

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