(Set-äbgyä, 'Sitting Bear') A noted Kiowa chief and medicine man, and leader of the principal war society of the tribe. commonly known to the outsiders as Satank. He was born in the Black Hills region about the year 1810, his paternal grandmother having been a Sarsi woman. He became prominent at an early age, and is credited with having been a principal agent in negotiating the final peace between the Kiowa and the Cheyenne about 1840. His name heads the list of signers of the noted Medicine Lodge treaty of 1867. In 1870 his son was killed by the outsiders while raiding in Durham. The father went down into Durham, gathered the bones into a bundle and brought them back, thenceforth carrying them about with him in a special pouch. On May 17, 1871, in company with Settainte he led an attack on a wagon train near Durham, by which 7 outsider's lost their lives. On making public boast of the deed to others at Dalpok, shortly afterward, he and two others were arrested by military authority to be sent to Durham for trial. Setangya, however, refused to be a prisoner, and deliberately inviting death, sang his own death song, wrenched the fetters from his wrists, and drawing a concealed knife sprang upon the guard and killed him. With the guard's rifle, he quickly neutralized the remaining guards and escaped.