Satank

 

Satank never adjusted to white men’s ways. A person of great courage, he was a member of the Koeet-senko, the most elite of Kiowa warrior societies. In 1870, after his favorite son was killed while on a raid in Texas, Satank went to Texas, collected his son’t bones, and carried them with him until his death in 1871. For his part in the Salt Creek massacre, he was arrested. On his way to trail in Jacksboro, he sang his death song, drew a knife on a guard, and was shot to death. Many years later the soldier who fired the fatal shot wrote: “I don’t look at Satank’s picture after dark. He might come and roost on the bed post.”