![]() Lone Wolf and the members of the KCA tribes believed the signatures needed had not been met and that many of the signatures obtained were falsified. confident they had obtained the necessary signatures of three-fourths of the adult male Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache residents of the reservation as agreed upon in the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty. They did not want to divert from the Medicine Lodge Treaty's terms and accept allotment.Īfter much debating on both sides the Jerome Commissioners left for Washington, D.C. Lone Wolf emphasized that if forced to take allotments it would be detrimental to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache tribes and that the tribes had decided they did not want to allot the lands currently in their possession on the reservation. Lone Wolf explained that the tribes were working to change the way they had lived their lives and had made progress. Lone Wolf attended the first two days of meetings to hear what the commissioners had to say and responded for the Kiowas on September 28. David Jerome assured them that living on the new allotments would not be any different than their current life on the reservation. ![]() The commission worked to convince the KCA tribes that they only needed 500,000 acres of land to sustain their needs and the other 2.6 million acres should be opened up for sale. The Indians of the KCA reserve unanimously opposed allotment as well as any further railroad rights of way through their lands they wanted their lands to be left as they were. The Jerome Commission came to the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache's (commonly referred to as the KCA) Reservation in 1892 to gain Indian approval to change the Medicine Lodge Treaty assurances and Indian consent to the opening of the reserve to white settlers. The Jerome Commission was one of fifteen commissions working throughout Indian Country to allot Indian lands and to open up the last part of the United States to white settlers. Lone Wolf and his group particularly opposed the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Act which was enacted in 1887. They opposed the government at every turn and fought to keep their children out of government run schools and they resisted being turned into farmers and Christians. The Indian Agents for the reservation called Lone Wolf and his followers "The Implacables" due to their strong opposition to governmental policies. Lone Wolf the Younger lived along with his Kiowa followers in the northern part of the reservation near Mount Scott and the Elk and Rainy Mountain creeks. They comprised a large and influential Kiowa family from the western part of the KCA Reservation. Chaddlekaungy-ky, Hovekah (Jack Wolf) and Tanequoot (Spottedbird). He was a full brother to Saudlekongeah (Black Turtle), Bolekonegeah (Black Goose) aka. Lone Wolf was the son of Audlekoety (Big Black Hair) and Paugei-to (Pursuing Them Along A River). Lone Wolf the Younger led the Kiowa resistance to United States governmental influence on the reservation, which culminated up to the Supreme Court case Lone Wolf v. ![]() Old Chief Lone Wolf, Gui-pah-gah, the Elder gave his name to Mamay-day-te. ![]() Mamay-day-te was among the raid avenging the deaths and counted his first coup during the attack. Two years later, the son of the Old Chief Lone Wolf, Gui-pah-gah, the Elder and his nephew were killed by American Troops. In 1872, Mamay-day-te saved the son of Old Chief Lone Wolf, Gui-pah-gah, the Elder, during a skirmish with teamsters at Howard Wells, New Mexico. Lone Wolf the Younger was a warrior named Mamay-day-te.
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