The nation’s history section explicitly acknowledges the events of 1874 as a turning point in the transition from the free range to the reservation.

The Kiowa Tribe is headquartered at Carnegie, Oklahoma.

The Kiowa maintain extensive cultural preservation programs, including ongoing efforts to document and revitalize the Kiowa language, which was classified as severely endangered in the early twenty-first century.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma represent the Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho whose ancestors were at Palo Duro Canyon, headquartered at Concho, Oklahoma.

These nations are not historical curiosities.