Department of History Presents: Killers, Honor, and the Southern Plains | Anne Hyde

PSU Department of History Presents:
Killers, Honor, and the Southern Plains: Kiowa and U.S. Army Strategies in Reconstruction Era Indian Country with Anne Hyde

📅 February 06, 2025
🕑 5:00 PM
📍 Smith Memorial Student Union (SMSU 294)
1825 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97201
✔️ RSVP: bit.ly/fohhyde

In 1871, when three Kiowa leaders - Satank, Satanta, and Addo-etta - faced trial in Texas after a deadly raid, the case exposed deep fractures in U.S. Indian policy. General Sherman's unprecedented decision to use Texas courts rather than military justice reflected both political pressures and weakened federal authority in Reconstruction-era Indian Territory. The press coverage of these "Kiowa killers" highlighted the Army's diminished control, while Sherman hoped a civil trial would demonstrate effective governance - if they could prevent vigilante justice from victims' families. This incident, part of a broader study of Indian killing from 1690s-1890s, reveals how Civil War generals Sherman and Sheridan, versed in total war tactics, confronted unexpected challenges: President Grant's Peace Policy and resistant Kiowa leadership.

Anne Hyde is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and Editor-in-Chief of the Western Historical Quarterly. She grew up in Reno, Nevada and attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts where she majored in American Studies. She got her MA and PhD in history at UC Berkeley. She’s an award-winning author of five books and has co-authored several others, including two textbooks about the U.S. West with William Deverell. Her most recent book, Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West, was published by W. W. Norton in 2022.

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