The Kiowa Calendar tradition — the pictographic winter counts that recorded Kiowa history — has been the subject of scholarly documentation and community preservation efforts.

The calendars cover the Red River War period and record the events of 1874-1875 in Kiowa terms.

The Kiowa artist tradition — which includes the ledger art of the Fort Marion prisoners, who drew images of their lives and their history on the paper given to them during their incarceration — is one of the most important visual records of the transition period from the Plains to the reservation.

The Fort Marion drawings, including images of the Plains life they had left behind, are both historical documents and works of art that preserve the visual record of a world that ended with the Red River War.