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Set-angya, Set-angya
is the name of a Kiowa

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chief of the 19th century.

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A very extraordinary man.

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There is one
photograph of Set-angya

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in the National Archive.

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It's the only photograph
of him that I know exists.

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It's from about here up and
he's glaring into the camera

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with his one eye.

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He has only one eye.

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I think at least there is one
eye glaring into the camera.

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The other eye is just a slit.

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I think he must have lost
it somewhere along the way.

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He's wearing a buffalo
robe and bandolier.

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You can't tell what the
bandolier is made of.

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But a President Buchanan peace
medal, right here, his hair

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is gray and scraggly and long.

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He has a fu manchu
mustache and he's

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looking into the camera
with something like malice.

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Now this man, I want to tell
you a little bit about him

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because some of the things
I want to read to you

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refer to him.

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He was the leader of the
Kaitsenko society in the Kiowa

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tribe.

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The Kaitsenko society was
the Crazy Dog society.

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The Dog Soldier society.

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It was composed of 10 men only.

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The 10 most brave.

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And he was the leader
of this society.

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Each of the Kaitsenko
warriors wore a sash,

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a long sash which
trailed the ground

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and carried a sacred arrow.

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And in time of battle,
the Kaitsenko warrior

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must impale the sash to the
ground by means of the arrow

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and stand background
to the death.

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The Kaitsenko society was the
last defense of the people.

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And so this was a military
organization the elitism

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of which cannot be overstated,
the creme de la creme.

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The warrior society of
all warrior societies.

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And this old man was the leader.

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His son, his favorite son was
killed in Texas on a raid.

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And when Set-angya got
word of his son's death,

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he went to Texas and gathered
up the bones of his son

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and he carried them.

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He placed them on the back of a
horse and led the horse around.

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Everywhere from that time on,
he carried the bones of his son

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with him.

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At night he would place the
bones in a special teepee

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and he would announce
to the people

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that his son was at home.

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Come, come my son
is at home tonight,

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come and pay your respects.

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When he was quite old, but
still the great chief and leader

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of the Kaitsenko society,
he was imprisoned

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at Fort Sill along with
two other Kiowa chiefs.

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They had been charged
with murder in connection

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with the Warren
wagon train massacre.

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So these three great chiefs
were imprisoned at Fort Sill.

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And then it was decided to
move them to Texas, Huntsville

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where they would
await execution.

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And so they were shackled
hand and foot, placed

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in the back of a
wagon, and the teamster

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drove the wagon with
two mounted armed guards

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on either side going to
the rail head and to be put

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on the train for Huntsville.

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And as they were
moving across the Fort,

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Set-angya began to sing the
song of the Kaitsenko society.

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Now, this was taboo.

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The song could only be sung in
the face of death and everybody

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knew that.

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And it was a very
serious matter that he

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should begin to sing the
song and the other two

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chiefs looked at him.

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And they were greatly
alarmed and they

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said, "you can't sing
that song, that's taboo.

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What are you doing?"

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And he said you see, this
is all very well documented

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in the archives at Fort Sill.

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He said, that tree you
see in the distance,

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and there was a Cottonwood
tree by the side of the road.

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He said, by the time we reach
that tree I will be dead.

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And they didn't know
what to make of that,

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but Set-angya drew
a knife, which

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he had secreted on his person
and he attacked the teamster.

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He stabbed the
teamster in the leg.

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The armed guards on
either side of course,

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opened fire and shot
him dead on the spot.

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He was true to his word.

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Before they reached the tree
in the distance he was dead.

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And he remains a
figure in Kiowa society

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and I will have a chance to
come back to that a bit later.

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