Special File # 8 Satanta & Big Tree Kiowa Chiefs Imprisoned in Texas 1871-73
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Ado-ete, 1850?-1927
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A'do-eete, also known as Big Tree was probably born circa 1850 somewhere on the plains of western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, or southwestern Kansas. The Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 placed the Kiowa on a reservation in the Leased District of Indian Territory. From there Kiowa warriors launched raids into Texas. On May 18, 1871, Big Tree, Satank, and Satanta were among the leaders of a multitribal war party that attacked the wagon train of freighter Henry Warren in Young County, Texas, near ...
