Mamay-day-te's (Lone Wolf "the Younger's") Grave @ Elk Creek Cemetery

Elk Creek Cemetery
Hobart, OK 73651, USA
GPS Coordinates: 34.967926, -99.085616

Born in 1843, Mamay-day-te was an experienced warrior. 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. Two years later, the son of the Old Chief Lone Wolf, Gui-pah-gah, the Elder and his nephew were killed by American Troops. Mamay-day-te was among the raid avenging the deaths and counted his first coup during the attack. Old Chief Lone Wolf, Gui-pah-gah, the Elder gave his name to Mamay-day-te.

At the conclusion of the Lost valley fight in 1874 and before his death in 1879, Guipago (Lone Wolf "the Elder") passed his name on to Mamay-day-te, who became the Elk Creek Lone Wolf or Lone Wolf "the Younger". The younger Lone Wolf and his followers lived in the more isolated norther part of the reserve, near Mt Scott of Lone Wolf "the Elder", and along Elk and Rainy Mt creeks. He subsequently led Kiowa resistance to government influence on the reservation; Lone Wolf the Younger led a group of warriors to recover the bodies and to avenge their deaths.

He was not immediately recognized as principal chief of the Kiowa, but subsequent to 1879, when Lone Wolf "the Elder" died, he slowly rose to that position, or virtually so, for, after the pacification of the Indians, there were few genuine chiefs. In 1886, under the name of Lone Wolf, he was appointed member of a three-man court to try Indians for various offenses. He was converted to Christianity in 1893 and became a member of the Elk Creek Baptist Church.

He made several trips to Washington as a tribal delegate, and was one of those who represented his tribe in matters of great importance such as the opening of the reservation to homesteading in 1901.
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. Hitchcock (argued October 23, 1902 and decided January 5, 1903).

Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 553 (1903), was a United States Supreme Court case brought against the US government by the Kiowa chief Lone Wolf, who charged that Native American tribes under the Medicine Lodge Treaty had been defrauded of land by Congressional actions in violation of the treaty.

The Court declared that the "plenary power" of the United States Congress gave it authority to abrogate treaty obligations between the United States and Native American tribes unilaterally. The decision marked a departure from the holdings of Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. 1 (1831), and Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515 (1832), which had shown greater respect for the autonomy of Native American tribes.

Mamay-day-te (Lone Wolf "the Younger) died in 1923 at the age of eighty and was buried in the Elk Creek cemetery near Hobart, Oklahoma.

Grave inscription:
"LONE WOLF
Chief of
Kiowas
1843 - 1923
Brought his people to Christianity and Civilization. Quo Pah Ko appointed chief in 1883. United States Scout in 1883. Deacon of Elk Creek Baptist Church. Invited to the White House by the President in 1922 for the last time.
QUO-PAH-KO"

Gravesite Details: You will find QUO-PAH-KO on Chief MO-MA-Day Lone Wolf II headstone. It is not his name; it is an Indian word for the meaning of BAND Of INDIANS who were at the Treaty of Arkansas. The Treaty of Arkansas is called QUO-PAH-KO.

Sources:
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* Plains Indian Raiders: The Final Phases of Warfare from the Arkansas to the ...
By Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, page 332.
* Wikipedia contributors, "Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, en.wikipedia.org (accessed February 2, 2019).
* Naugle, C. (2011). Chief Lone Wolf, II. [online] Findagrave.com. Available at: www.findagrave.com[Accessed 2 Feb. 2019].