The Kiowa people were a large warrior culture that roamed the plains before the arrival of Europeans. The Kiowa Indian tribe formed an alliance with neighboring tribes and dominated the western plains for decades. In their native language they called themselves "Ka'gwa" which meant "Main People". Before the intervention of European cultures they were known as "People with large flaps of types". The Kiowa expanded their territories across the southern plains, known as modern Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas. In the mid-1900s the Kiowa Indian tribe made several treaties with the United States, but it was the Medicine Lodge treaty with the Southern Plains tribes that moved the Kiowa to the reservation located in present-day Oklahoma. The Kiowa were known among other tribes as the people of the great flapped tipi, and their tipi art displayed battle emblems of members of the Kiowa war society. It was with horses that came an abundance of buffalo leather and larger tipis for the nomadic tribe, and with more leather came excellent craftsmanship. The first documented Spaniard to arrive in the Southern Plains was Don Juan de Onate. He gives his description of what he saw according to the book by Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton entitled Native American Architecture, which states the following: "fifty tents of tanned hides, very bright red and white and bell-shaped, with doors and opening and built as skillfully as any house in Italy. (Nabokov and Easton 1989) During Don Juan de Onate's expedition to eastern New Mexico he encountered tipis and described how native tribes used dogs to carry their belongings the arrival of the Spanish, in the mid-15th century, also came the horses, which turning... middle of paper... disappeared along with the ancient chiefs Little Bluff battle types influence other artists at Fort Marion when the battle scene with Calvary began to appear in more ledgers. In conclusion, most Kiowa types before the Medicine Lodge treatises showed a line of traditional types passed down from previous generations that showed few battle images but rather had. a simple style or horizontal stripes. These simplistic tipis with solid colors and little contrast represented more of a typical, seasoned Kiowa tipi. After the Medicine Lodge treatises, the artwork depicted by most Kiowa artists became more graphic to the present day. The stripped tipi at Little Bluff is an example of how the European impact changed the style of tipi design after the treaties. Tipi still exist today in canvas form in the Kiowa Nation honoring warriors returning from war just as they had centuries before.