YW
The basics
Quick facts
Intro
War Chief of the Comanche Indians
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Male
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Birth:
1800(Texas, United States of America)
Death:
1854(Oklahoma, United States of America)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Yellow Wolf (Comanche Isa-viah, a.k.a. Little Wolf), Spirit Talker (comanche Mukwooru)'s nephew andBuffalo Hump (Comanche potsʉnakwahipʉ "buffalo bull's back")'s cousin and best support (born ca. 1800 or 1805 — died 1854) was a War Chief of the Penateka division of the Comanche Indians. He came to prominence after the Council House Fight when Buffalo Hump led the Comanches on the Great Raid of 1840.
Sources
- Wallace, Ernest & Hoebel, E. Adamson. The Comanche: Lords of the Southern Plains, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1952
- Schilz, Jodye Lynn Dickson andThomas 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