Kicking Bird


Kicking Bird
Died
NationalityKiowa
Known for A Chief of the Kiowa Indian Nation, warrior, peacemaker

Kicking Bird (b. Tene-angop'te)

(?1835–75) Kiowa chief; born on the central Great Plains. Advocating peace with whites as a means of Indian survival, he signed his tribe's first treaty (1865), establishing the Kiowa reservation. He later worked to promote peace and as an advocate for education.