The Settlement
In the 1920’s, after the loss of Lone Wolf’s case in the Supreme Court, the Kiowa Indians went to Congress seeking legislation to help them. In 1955 the Indian Claims Commission awarded the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache tribes over 2 million dollars in additional compensation for the land allotted in the Act of 1900.
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