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Kiowa man and his wife. The Kiowa lived in and around the Texas panhandle. This includes western Oklahoma and northeast New Mexico. They were nomadic buffalo hunters. That makes them hunter gatherers.
It was located in the valley of the Medicine Lodge River, several miles below the present town of Medicine Lodge, which is at the mouth of Elm Creek. In their own language, the Kiowa people called this stream A-ya-dalda Pâa, meaning Timber-hill River. The Kiowa had considered the site sacred due to the high content of Epsom salts in the river.