Lone Wolf (chief)

Lone Wolf, 1870. Portrait of William S. Soule, probably taken at Fort Sill

Guipago or Gui-pah-gho ("lonely wolf", therefore better known as Lone Wolf , also "Rescued by Wolves" - "saved by wolves", * around 1820 in the area of ​​the Staked Plains ; † April 1879 near Fort Sill ) was the last undisputed head chief of the Kiowa - Indians .

In order not to confuse him with his nephew and later adopted son, the warrior Mamay-day-te (Medicine Standing Bundles) or Lone Wolf II, to whom he also named Lone Wolf (Guipago) , he is often called Lone Wolf to distinguish it the Elder and his nephew (adopted son) as Lone Wolf the Younger .

Lone Wolf was Dohasan's successor and an implacable enemy of the whites. He was a member of the elite warrior society Tsetanma . In 1863 and 1872 he traveled to Washington, DC to obtain the release of Satanta and Big Tree , which he succeeded thanks to a brilliant negotiating strategy. With other Indians he signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty on October 16, 1867 . After his son was killed in a Kiowa raid in South Texas in 1873, he began raiding settlers, Mexicans, and Americans again. In July 1874 he fought in the Lost Valley Fight in Young County, Texas against Texas Rangers under Major John B. Jones. On September 9, 1874, he attacked General Miles supply column (5th Infantry) under Captain Lyman on the Washita River, Hemphill County, Texas. He besieged the train for several days until support from Camp Supply arrived. After tough resistance, he too surrendered with the last 250 Kiowas living in the wild on February 26, 1875 in Fort Sill, from where he was exiled to Fort Marion (Florida). He died of malaria in April 1879, shortly after his release, near Fort Sill.

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