The Kiowa are a federally recognized tribe, meaning they have a functioning government-to-government relationship with the United States government.
Mock sham battles, purifying sweat baths, erecting the center cottonwood pole, building the arbor, bringing the brush in, spreading sand on the ground, building the sacred Taimé altar, unveiling the Taimé by the Taimé keeper, distribution of shields, ritual body painting, leading in the different pledge makers/dancers by their clans accompanied by their painters, prayer, speeches, dancing, eagle whistle blowing, visions and feasting by the pledge makers'/dancers' families were all ceremonial elements integral to the four-day k'aw-tow.
[1] Early 20th Century Kiowa recordings are housed in the Library of Congress's Archive of Folk Culture, Indiana University American Indian Studies Research Institute, The Oklahoma Historical Society's Oklahoma History Center, and the Kiowa Tribal Museum.
New Kiowa songs continue to be composed each year for new events, organizations and individuals.
1900/2-1969) were powwow singers, and Stephen Mopope (1898-1974) was an accomplished Native American flute-player.