In 1900, the United States relaxed its policy of confinement toward the Native Americans and in restitution meted out 160-acre tracts in the Wichita Mountains to various Kiowas, Comanches, and Apaches who had grown to adulthood on the military reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Tales of the Wichitas is a continuum of stories from the viewpoint of an Anglo boy whose family lived among and leased land from these Native Americans. Ranging in time from the Red River Wars to the narrator's boyhood in the 1930s, these tales embrace romance, bravery, faith, kinship, and friendship with poignancy and historical veracity.
Tales of the Wichitas was published by Texas Tech Press in 1997. Although technically classified as historical fiction, the story is based on tales of the Native Americans that Dr. Moss heard while growing up in Oklahoma. Lawton, Oklahoma is the location for Fort Sill, where many of the Native American tribes were forced to live when they were defeated.
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