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The Kiowa nation has at least two different versions of their origin myth concerning death: How Death Came into the World and Why the Ant is Almost Cut in Two. Both explain the origin of death but differ significantly in characterization...

Kiowa Beaded Moccasins from Oklahoma, c. 1920. Oklahoma History Center.

Saynday tales are popular legends of the Kiowa nation featuring the trickster figure Saynday who, like other Native American tricksters, sometimes appears as a hero, sometimes as a villain, and other times as a clownish buffoon. Two of the...

Karen Onco is a retired educator of 42 years. She is a citizen of the Kiowa Tribe, headquartered in Carnegie, Oklahoma. Karen Onco speaks about Kiowa history, customs, traditions, regalia and religious beliefs.

Red sandstone cliffs in the Black Hills, Wyoming, former Kiowa territory which is still considered sacred ground by the Kiowa nation. Photograph by Walter Siegmund, 2005.

In Summer, Kiowa, photograph of three Kiowa men by F. A. Rinehart, 1898. The colorful clothing of the men suggests how the Kiowa's supernatural trickster figure Saynday's outfits would have been imagined. Boston Public Library.

This is a video for: "The Kiowa Creation Story", as shared from Elder N. Scott Momaday, who was told the myth by his Grandmother. There are also videos in this channel for over 1200 North, South & Central American Tribes & First Nations...

Don't forget to subscribe and leave a like. If you have any more to add, want to correct me, or leave what you thought comment below. This is a bit more of a serious video. I first read this story about 2 years ago and it's stuck with...

Two popular Cheyenne legends are the Origin of the Buffalo and How the Buffalo Hunt Began (also known as The Great Race), both dealing with the importance of the North American bison to the Cheyenne nation. Like others of the Plains Indians...

The Raven tales are stories featuring the trickster figure Raven that come from the Athabaskan (Dene)-speaking peoples of the Pacific Northwest and other First Nations of the region of modern-day Canada. Raven, like the trickster figures...