Keywords: William S. Soule - Esadowa.jpg ;Esadowa or Isadowa Esadowa or Isadowa was chief of the Wichita village adjacent to the Comanche camp attacked by Van Dorn in 1858 In 1861 Esadowa led his people north to Kansas then in 1865 brought them back to Indian Territory On June 14 1873 Esadowa was killed bv Osages while he was hunting buffalo Esadowa's quizzical expression does not stem from a sense of humor He was a victim of Bell's Palsy a mild form of facial paralysis which afflicts quite a few of the southern Plains Indians even to this day Smithsonian Instution Bureau of American Ethnology In Wilbur Sturtevant Nye Plains Indian raiders the final phases of warfare from the Arkansas to the Red River with original photographs by William S Soule University of Oklahoma Press 1st edition 1968 ISBN 0806111755 p394 Wilbur Sturtevant Nye Plains Indian raiders the final phases of warfare from the Arkansas to the Red River with original photographs by William S Soule University of Oklahoma Press 1st edition 1968 ISBN 0806111755 p395 decade 1870 Creator William S Soule PD-old-auto-1923 1908 Wichita Oklahoma in the 1870s William S Soule Bell's palsy |