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Etta
Birth: unknown
Death: unknown
Biography
Etta was the wife of Little Heart, a leader of the Kiowa tribe during the turbulent period of transition by Great Plains tribes to life on U.S. reservations from the 1850s through the 1870s. She joined her husband on his trip to Washington, DC in the Spring of 1863 where he joined several Native American delegates from the Southern Plains who visited President Abraham Lincoln to air their grievances. She is referenced as one of the "two brides" in their company in a letter written by Joseph Camp Griffin Kennedy to Frances Miller Seward, dated March 26, 1863.
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Etta was the wife of Little Heart, a leader of the Kiowa tribe during the turbulent period of transition by Great Plains tribes to life on U.S. reservations from the 1850s through the 1870s. She joined her husband on his trip to Washington, DC in the Spring of 1863 where he joined several Native American delegates from the Southern Plains who visited President Abraham Lincoln to air their grievances. She is referenced as one of the "two brides" in their company in a letter written by Joseph Camp Griffin Kennedy to Frances Miller Seward, dated March 26, 1863.