Kiowa Quotes

“Still she stood by the grave and then lifted her head to the flat countryside. A woodenness came over her. A Kiowa's first and last resort was courage. A Kiowa did not beg or plead or appease. She knew at the bitter end she could starve away despair, deny any sustenance to surrender. (...) Ausay gya kii, gyao boi tol. Prepare for a hard winter, prepare for hard times. She braided her hair as if for battle. And so she became quiet and stilled.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“Colorado was swept clean of Indians. Cheyenne and Arapaho, Kiowa and Comanche, Jicarilla and Ute - they had all known its mountains and plains, but now no trace of them remained but their names on the white man's land.”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West