Mukwoorʉ (based on , ) (Spirit Talker) (died ) was a 19th-century Penateka

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Chief and

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. His nephews were the two cousins

Buffalo Hump Buffalo Hump ( Comanche ''Potsʉnakwahipʉ'' "Erection That Won't Go Down" euphemized to "Buffalo Bull's Back" ) (born c. 1800 — died post 1861 / ante 1867) was a War Chief of the Penateka band of the Comanches. He came to prominence after ...

and Yellow Wolf, both very important Penateka war chiefs during the 1840s and 1850s.

Peace council

An important leader since the beginning of the 1820s, was chief and shaman; as their uncle, he trained the two cousins

and Yellow Wolf, the most important war chiefs of the Penateka Comanches in the period between the Texas Independence and the Civil War; in 1829 he and Yncoroy tried to reach a peace agreement with the Mexican authorities, but a raid against the settlements in the Guadalupe valley led by Buffalo Hump and Yellow Wolf provoked the failure of this project; in 1838 he went to Houston, where he,

Amorous Man The Amorous Man (,, ; – p. 1852) was a civil chief of the "Honey-Eaters" or Penateka band of the Comanche. The height of his prominence was in the 1830s and 1840s. Early life Nothing is known of his youth or early years. Amorous Man was ...

Old Owl Old Owl (Comanche language, Comanche, ''Mupitsukupʉ'') (c. late 1780s – 1849) was a Native Americans in the United States, Native American Chief of the Penateka band of the Comanche Indians. Early life Nothing is known of his youth or early y ...

, and Buffalo Hump met President

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and signed with him a treaty, while Yellow Wolf stayed in charge of the warriors. His village along the San Saba River was attacked in February 1839 by a detachment of Texas Rangers and their Tonkawa and Lipan auxiliaries, led by Col. John H. Moore. Most of the casualties were women and children. Mukwooru was the Comanche Chief who was chosen to represent the

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and Comanche in 1840. They had agreed to gather in

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to try to make peace with the Texans. However, he was killed during the meeting in the

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.Jodye Lynn Dickson Schilz, "Council House Fight," Handbook of Texas Onlin

accessed October 03, 2011. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

Sources

* Wallace, Ernest & Hoebel, E. Adamson. ''The Comanche: Lords of the Southern Plains'', University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1952 * Schilz, Jodye Lynn Dickson and Thomas F.Schilz. ''Buffalo Hump and the Penateka Comanches'', Texas Western Press, El Paso, 1989 * Nye, Wilbur Sturtevant. ''Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill'', University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1983 * Leckie, William H. ''The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West'', University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1967 * Fowler, Arlen L. ''The Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891'', University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1996 * Brown, Dee. ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West'', Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1970

References

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