Kiowa Land Opened to White Settlement: Another Native Nation Dissolved
The opening of the Kiowa reservation in Oklahoma in 1901 was the end of the legal framework that had ostensibly protected tribal land since the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867. The Dawes Act had already begun breaking up collective tribal holdings into individual allotments in the 1880s. The 1901 opening turned what remained of the communal Kiowa territory into homestead land for white settlers. Kiowa land in Oklahoma today is a fraction of what the 1867 treaty had promised.
August 6, 1901
125 years ago
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