Cutthroat Gap Massacre
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The Massacre of Cutthroat Gap occurred in the spring of 1833 in the Wichita Mountains. Osage Indians attacked the Kiowa village of Chief Islandman while most of the warriors were away raiding the Utes and the rest away on a buffalo hunt. The Osage killed the few remaining men and more than 150 Kiowa women and children. Few escaped. The Osage cut the heads from the bodies and left them in a row of kettles spread across the village. The gap, a small fertile valley, was named because of this incident.
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- Hoig, Stan. The Kiowas and the Legend of Kicking Bird. Boulder: The University Press of Colorado, 2000. ISBN 0-87081-564-4
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