Kiowa Calendars and the Search for Sacred Power

Bibliographic Data

ID5043341
AuthorsJennifer Graber (0000-0003-2229-5703, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume13
Issue3
Pages354-375
Publication date2017-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMaterial Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1743-2200 • E-ISSN: 1751-8342
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17432200.2017.1335973
OpenAlexW2740240743
LanguageEN
References cited27

This article explores Kiowa sai-gut, or calendars produced in the 1880s and 1890s to show how makers used material culture to represent new ritual practices as both broadly indigenous and particularly Kiowa. Using calendars as one form of Kiowa cultural expression, the article considers how Kiowas navigated their reservation’s changing religious landscape. Building on literature in American Indian studies that emphasizes native agency and activity in this period, the article suggests that scholars of American religions can look to forms of material culture as ways to track American Indian religious life in this period

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