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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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F!«. 1.50—Siit-faiute in prison (from Scribner^s MonOdij, February, 1874) who had married a Kiowa when the latter tribe lived in the far north.Unlike Indians generally, he habitually wore a mustache and stragglingbeard. He left two childreu; the elder, a son, was adopted into a whitefamily under the name of Joshua Given, Mas educated in the east, mar-ried a white lady, afterward returned as a missionary to his people,
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mooney) LAWEIE TATUM OX SET-ANGYA 331 aud died of coiisnmption about four years ago. The younger child,Julia Given, was until recently employed in one of the mission schoolson the reservation. Bearing on the subject of the arrest of the three chiefs and thedeath of Set-iingya, we quote at length from a letter written by LawrieTatum, the first agent for the Kiowa and associated tribes, from whomthe author has obtained much valuable information in response to let-ters of inquiry. Mr Tatum, who is now (1896) living in Springdale,Iowa, at the advanced age of 75 years, is a member of the Society ofFriends, and was appointed, on their recommendation, in accordancewith the Indian peace policy of President Grant, soon after thetribes were brought upon the reservation. He ■ took charge, as hestates, July 1, 1809, and resigned March 31,1873, in consequence of therelease of Set-faintc and Big-tree, a measure which he opposed, as itwas on his motion that these men were originally arrested. Duri

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