Stumbling Bear - Kiowa

Stumbling Bear 1832-1903

Stumbling Bear (SETIM-KIA) was born in 1832 in to the Kiowa tribe. He was a cousin of the famous chief Kicking Bird. In 1856 he gained a war party against the Navajos and in 1858 against Utes. In 1864, in the first battle of "Adobe Walls" (Texas), he killed two soldiers and one Ute scout. From 1850 to 1872 he partecipated at almost all the battles fought by his tribe.
He signed the treaty of "Little Arkansas" (1865) and "Medicine Lodge" (1868). In 1872, a white doctor saved his sick child. At that moment he made a decision to surrender for the gratitude of saving his child. He died in 1903 at Fort Sill (Oklahoma).

Credits: Charlie