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Kiowa Drawings in the National Anthropological Archives (0 words) |
 | The best-known bodies of Kiowa graphic art are the drawings produced by Kiowa men imprisoned at Fort Marion in the 1870s and the work produced in the twentieth century by the Kiowa Five, a group of artists who studied at the University of Oklahoma. |
| At the conclusion of the Southern Plains Indian war, a group of 72 warriors, primarily Kiowas, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes, were taken prisoner and transported to Fort Marion, in St. Augustine, Florida, where they were held as hostages to ensure the peaceful conduct of their tribes. |
| Kiowa painters were prominent in the development of contemporary Indian painting, and led the early "Oklahoma school" of work. |
| Fort Clark > Battles for the Nueces Strip (0 words) |
| Fort McIntosh was established upriver at Laredo in 1849. |
| Fort Inge was abandoned in the spring of 1869. |
| Although troops from Fort Clark and Fort Duncan were not directly involved in the operation, the political unrest provided sufficient reason for the army to maintain its presence all along the international boundary. |
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