“Kiowa: The Ones Who Follow the Sun” with Noah Tsotigh at Fort Phil Kearny

Wyoming State Parks Site Superintendent Sharie Shada made an appearance on Sheridan Media’s Public Pulse to announce the American Indian Student Interpretive Ranger Program’s final presentation for the year. 

As a member of the Kiowa Tribe, American Indian Student Interpretive Ranger Noah Tsotigh, will present the unique history of the tribe that made a long migration through what is now the United States. 

The Kiowa’s ancestral roots are based in the Rocky Mountain Region, near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River of western Montana. According to the Oklahoma Historical Society, in the late seventeenth century, the horse-seeking Kiowa and affiliated Plains Apache had migrated southeast through Crow country and had reached the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota by 1775. By the early nineteenth century the two peoples had been pushed south of the Platte to the Arkansas River by the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne. 

S. Shada 

Tsotigh and others are working to educate the public on this history and preserve this rich culture of the Kiowa Tribe as he presents the program “Kiowa: The Ones Who Follow the Sun.” 

S. Shada 

“Kiowa: The Ones Who Follow the Sun,” will begin at 6 p.m. Aug. 8 at the Fort and is free and open to the public. Shada said Wyoming State Parks will continue this partnership between Fort Phil Kearny, the Bozeman Trail Association and the Bighorn National Forest. Funding support comes from the Wyoming Council for the Humanities.