Their medicine lodge was deserted and their sacred Sundance tree left standing alone. soldiers forbid the Sundance and the Kiowa warriors withdrawn from the banks of the Wichita River. Lone Wolf I died of malaria the same year and lies buried in an unmarked grave on the north side of Long Horn Mountain east of Kiowa County, Oklahoma. QUO-PAH-KO, which is engraved on the younger Lone Wolf’s gravestone, refers to the band of Kiowa Indians who were present for the signing of this treaty. The town of Lone Wolf, Oklahoma is named after Lone Wolf II (MO-MA-DAY).Ĭhief Lone Wolf I was a signer of Treaty of Little Arkansas. Texas is named after Lone Wolf I (GUI-PAH-GO). The town of Lone Wolf, Texas in Mitchell Co. In 1879, he was adopted by the elder Chief Lone Wolf based on his bravery in battle. Auxiliary chiefs were Gotebo, Komalty, Ahtape, and Spotted Bird. Buel, in his last battle with the United States. In 1874 in Greer County, Lone Wolf II, with a band of Comanche warriors, fought Major William’s men under command of Col. Texas was a boyhood friend, Mo-ma-day who retrieved his fallen friend, Tau-Ah-Kia, and buried him according to Kiowa Custom. On Dec 23 1873, the only son of Chief Lone Wolf the Elder, 19 year old Tau-Ah-Kia, was killed in South Texas. Prior to becoming chief, he was a fierce warrior named Mamadayte who survived the Battle of Washita, in which General Custer surprised and overcame Black Kettle, Chief of the Cheyenne. Lone Wolf was appointed Chief of the Kiowa in 1883 and served 40 years until his death in 1923. 11, 1923, Hobart, Kiowa Co, Oklahomaĭaughter: Sarah Ahtape Lone Wolf Kauahquo (1886 – 1958) Understanding how this happened in the case of the Kiowa permits a nuanced view of the well-intentioned but ultimately disastrous allotment effort.Born 1843, Oklahoma, USA – Died Aug. The Lone Wolf case also necessarily becomes a study of the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887 in operation under the terms of the Dawes Act and successor legislation, almost two-thirds of Indian lands passed out of their hands within a generation. The story of the case therefore also becomes the history of the tribe in the late nineteenth century. In 1902 the case reached the Supreme Court, which found that Congress could overturn the treaties through the doctrine of plenary power.Īs he recounts the Lone Wolf case, Clark reaches beyond the legal decision to describe the Kiowa tribe itself and its struggles to cope with Euro-American pressure on its society, attitudes, culture, economic system, and land base. Lone Wolf, a Kiowa band leader, sued to halt the land division, citing the treaties signed with the United States immediately after the Civil War. In 1892 the Kiowas and related Comanche and Plains Apache groups were pressured into agreeing to divide their land into allotments under the terms of the Dawes Act of 1887. The importance of the Lone Wolf case of 1903 resides in its enunciation of the "plenary power" doctrine-that the United States could unilaterally act in violation of its own treaties and that Congress could dispose of land recognized by treaty as belonging to individual tribes. Each exemplifies a problem or a process as the United States defined and codified its politics toward Indians. relations with Indian tribes are Corn Tassel, Standing Bear, Crow Dog, and Lone Wolf. Landmark court cases in the history of formal U.S.
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