Satanta (White Bear) - Anadarko, OK
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N 35° 04.387 W 098° 13.656
14S E 570420 N 3881424
Satanta was one of the most effective orators among the Kiowa and one of the most well-known Indian chiefs in the Southwest.
Waymark Code: WMCKW2
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/18/2011
Published By: 3am
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The bronze bust of Satanta (Set-t’ainte or “White Bear”) is awesome. He is shown in a full feathered chief’s headdress. His hair is long and he is wearing a medallion necklace over a beaded front. The sculptor is Sherman Chaddlesone. His plaque which shows a Kiowa seal, with headdress and saber and what appears to be an Army tank, reads:
KIOWA WAR CHIEF
SATANTA (WHITE BEAR)
1830 – 1878
“ORATOR OF THE PLAINS”
One of the Most Illustrious and Colorful
Indian Leaders of the Southwest Region.
Signer of the Medicine Lodge Treaties
Which Benefit the Nation’s Indian Tribes Today.
SATANTE’S (Set-Tainte) CHILDREN
Tsa-l-au-te (Gray Goose)
Odle-paw (Buffalo Bird)
Auchiah (Looks-in-a-Ute-Lodge)
Ay-Keen (Dash-at-the-Enemy)
Sah-tope-ay-doh (Pipe Holder)
Ah-toh-nah (Charging the Enemy)
Sah-geh-ah-hodle (Skirmish on the East Side)
Pai-ah-tay (Same Land Mark)
Title Give Him by the Press Because of his
Rhetoric and Keen Sense of Speech; Courageous
And Brave as a Warrior; Most Outspoken and
Daring of the War Cheifs; Captain of the
Kiowa Tia-Peah Warrior Society
“Possessed the Character of a True Leader.”
Although known for his oration and speech, Satanta was also a warrior and took part in several attacks against white settlers and government wagons. He was captured in 1871 and convicted at a trial in Texas and sent to Huntsville Prison. Paroled in 1873, he again went on the warpath and was returned to prison at Huntsville. In a state of despondency, he jumped to his death from a prison window on October 11, 1878. He was buried in the prison cemetery, but in 1965, his body was reburied at the Chief’s Knoll at Fort Sill.
[Biographical information from the Museum’s Self-Guiding Tour pamphlet.]