CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION AGE OF ABORIGINAL AMERICAN RECORDS

SKETCH OF THE KIOWA TRIBE TRIBAL SYNONYMY Be'sh?ltcha Na-isha

THE NADIISHA-DENA OR KIOWA APACHE TRIBAL SYNONYMY Apaches

THE ANNUAL CALENDARS, 1833 1892 WINTER 1832 33

KIOWA CHRONOLOGY TERMS EMPLOYED Now Inhogo ( Inhoti =this).

THE ANKO MONTHLY CALENDAR ( August, 1889 July, 1893. )

MILITARY AND TRADING POSTS, MISSIONS, ETC, WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE ACCOMPANYING MAP

THE KIOWA LANGUAGE CHARACTERISTICS

AUTHORITIES CITED

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS

INDEX

FOOTNOTES

CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA INDIANS
BY
JAMES MOONEY

Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-96, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 129—444