A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Fort Marion
By Unknown Author.
Description
Winner of the 2009 Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Book Award from College Art AssociationWinner of the 2008 Award of Merit from the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations A Kiowa's Odyssey recreates a sketchbook of drawings that chronicle the experiences of seventy-two Southern Plains Indians captured by the U.S. Army in Oklahoma in 1875. To stem their ability to lead raids against white settlers, the army exiled these Arapaho, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Kiowa Indians more than 1,000 miles, by wagon, train, and steamboat, to Fort Marion, Florida. The prisoners, dazed by trav...
ISBN(s)
0295987278, 9780295987279
