Before the Founding of Lawton
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It was the summer of 1874. Army soldiers were sent out into the wilderness once again. This time their orders were different. They were told to drive the natives back onto the assigned lands. If the natives would not go, the soldiers were told to kill them all. Winter came. Many natives moved onto the reservations. They felt they had no other choice. They were trying to escape the soldiers and the hunger of the harsh winter. In the late spring, the Red River War came to an end. Satanta was the chief of the Kiowas. He did not want to live the rest of his life on a reservation. But at last he surrendered. He went to the Cheyenne-Arapaho Agency. Quanah Parker was the last war chief of the Comanches. His band of warriors was the last to surrender. They rode into Fort Sill in 1875. The war on the Southern Plains had come to an end. |
Satanta, Kiowa Chief Photograph, Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives 001_002_3.30 |
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