Mukwoorʉ (based on Comanche ''mukua'' "spirit") (Spirit Talker) (d. March 19, 1840) was a 19th-century Penateka Comanche Chief and medicine man in Central Texas. His nephews were the two cousins

Buffalo Hump Buffalo Hump (Comanche ''Potsʉnakwahipʉ'' "Buffalo Bull's Back") (born c. 1800 — died post 1861 / ante 1867) was a War Chief of the Penateka band of the Comanche Indians. He came to prominence after the Council House Fight when he led the C ...

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,

Old Owl Old Owl ( Comanche, ''Mupitsukupʉ'') (c. late 1780s – 1849) was a Native American Civil Chief of the Penateka band of the Comanche Indians. Early life Nothing is known of his youth or early years. Older than the two war chiefs, Old Owl was ...

, and Buffalo Hump met President Sam Houston 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 John Hartwell Moore (27 February 1939 – 10 August 2016) was an American anthropologist. He was born in Williston, North Dakota, and raised in Paragould, Arkansas. He earned a degree in chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas, t ...

. Most of the casualties were women and children. Mukwooru was the Comanche Chief who was chosen to represent the

Penateka The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ ( com, Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") are a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in La ...

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

Council House Fight The Council House Fight, often referred to as the Council House Massacre, was a fight between soldiers and officials of the Republic of Texas and a delegation of Comanche chiefs during a peace conference in San Antonio on March 19, 1840. The mee ...

.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 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

References

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