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Show SATANTA OF THE KIOWAS, AS "ORATOR OF THE PLAINS" SATANTA (Set-t'-ainte "White I Rear"), chief of the Klowas, ac- quired the sobriquet of "Orator of the I Plains" at the famous Medicine Lodge ! treaty In 1SU7 where he made the I leading speech In reply to the gov-.' gov-.' eminent commissioners. "I love the ; land nnd the buffalo and will not 1 part with them," he declared. "I have heard that you intend to settle us on i a reservation near the mountains. I . don't want to settle. I love to roam ; over the prairies. There I feel free , and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die." He had uttered the creed of the nomadic plains Indian and he backed j up his words with deeds. He was a I daring leader and a merciless foe. He literally painted the southern plains red, his favorite color. On the warpath lie daubed his face, hair and the upper part of his body with crimson and he painted his tepee entirely en-tirely red, with streamers of the same color at the ends of the poles. "Satanta is a tine-looking Indian, energetic nnd sharp us a brier. He puts on a good deal of style at his meals and spreads a carpet for his guests to sit on. He has painted fire-boards fire-boards for tables and a brass French horn which he blows vigorously when the food is ready," writes a government govern-ment physician who was his guest in 1SC5. Satanta was a grim humorist. Once at Fort Dodge Gen. W. S. Hancock gave him a major-general's uniform and the Kiowa showed his appreciation apprecia-tion of the gift by putting it on and leading an attack on the post. Some time later Satanta had the effrontery ef-frontery to visit Fort Harker clad in j his general's uniform and riding In a government ambulance, drawn by eight mules, an equipage which he had captured in one of his raids. With a brawny Indian driver lashing the j mules to top speed, Satanta. dashed j Into the fort and announced that he j had come to make a formal call on Gen. A. N. Sully who wus visiting there. In 1S71 Satanta was sentenced to ! life imprisonment in the Texas state ' penitentiary for having killed several S whites in that state. After two years he was released. In 1874 the Kiowas went on the warpath again nnd although al-though Satanta had no part in Hie out- tireak, he was taken back to prison. On October 11, 1S7S, he killed himself ' Jumping from an upper window o: the hoj '.tul w here he lay ill i |