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SUMMARY:Oh Grandfather\, give me power over my enemies!  Aspects of Kiowa 
 Warfare in the Nineteenth Century - Adam Storring (Department of Health)
DTSTART:20090512T163000Z
DTEND:20090512T180000Z
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CONTACT:Ilya Berkovich
DESCRIPTION:The Kiowas were one of the smaller Native American tribes livi
 ng on the southern Great Plains during the period of white conquest in the
  Nineteenth Century.  They were also among the most prolific in fighting a
 gainst that invasion\, and the story of armed resistance on the Southern P
 lains is often told primarily through the trials and tribulations of the K
 iowas and their principal chiefs.  However\, Kiowa history beyond their st
 ruggles with the United States has been seriously neglected\, and the Kiow
 as have received far less attention from scholars than the larger\, more f
 amous tribes of the Northern Plains such as the Cheyenne and Lakota\, and 
 even than their southern neighbours the Comanches.\n\nBased entirely on Ki
 owa oral sources\, this talk seeks to illuminate the particular features o
 f Kiowa warfare\, demonstrating its sharp differences\, both in conception
  and practice\, from the model familiar to Europeans.  It will touch on qu
 estions of the character of warfare in a nomad culture\, and in an individ
 ualist and (theoretically) meritocratic society.  It will also seek to foc
 us attention away from the familiar Euro American-centred narrative of the
  period\, and to emphasise that the tribes of the Great Plains had their o
 wn strategic preoccupations\, which often had nothing to do with the activ
 ities of the United States and were only peripherally affected by whites.
LOCATION:Drawing Room\, Fisher Building\, St. John's College
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