About one thousand tornadoes touch down in the United States every year and they can be deadly. One person was killed and 25 others injured in April when a tornado struck a culture festival at Caddo Mounds Historical Site in Texas. The Kiowa tell of a being resembling a horse that whips around its lizard tail to create tornadoes. The Kiowa’s Silver Horn Calendar, which dates back to the early 19th Century, includes a drawing of the Storm-Maker Red Horse during a particularly bad tornado season in 1905 the calendar calls Great Cyclone Summer. We’ll focus on tribes’ connections to tornadoes as well as the latest in preparing for them.