Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
In February, the United States passed the grim milestone of 500,000 deaths from COVID-19. The pandemic has hit Indigenous communities particularly hard. In some tribal nations, the virus has taken first language speakers and the culture bearers who hold knowledge that marks the tribal nation s identity. That s especially true for the Kiowa Tribe in Southwest Oklahoma.
Vernon Cy Ahtone, a Kiowa elder and culture bearer, has some insight into why tornadoes happen. Tornado happens because Saynday was coming along one time and he saw all these things going on and he didn t see many more. And so there was this one particular place that he wanted to concentrate on. So he sent a big wind to them.
Get to know the seminal Oklahoma Native American artists, the Kiowa Six
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Get to know the seminal Oklahoma Native American artists the Kiowa Six
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