EDITORIAL

IKE OTHER TRIBAL NATIONS ON THE Plains, the Kiowa Tribe, my tribe, created pictorial records of important events, stories, and people. The accounts, known as , can be translated as “calendars.” In many calendars, disease and epidemics are graphically illustrated. The winter of, or smallpox winter, represented by the image of a person covered with spots. This is the first mention of the disease in this and was rerecorded by Smithsonian anthropologist James Mooney in his s, produced for the Bureau of American Ethnology.