Bad Medicine and Good: Tales of the Kiowas

by Wilbur Sturtevant Nye and Nye

Book Overview

One of the great tribes of the Southwest Plains, the Kiowas were militantly defiant toward white intruders in their territory and killed more during seventy-five years of raiding than any other tribe. Now settled in southwestern Oklahoma, they are today one of the most progressive Indian groups in the area. In Bad Medicine and Good, Wilbur Sturtevant Nye collects forty-four stories covering Kiowa history from the 1700s through the 1940s, all gleaned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806129654
• ISBN13: 9780806129655
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"