Native Americans/Indians of Mitchell County, Texas
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Kiowas
Gui-Tan - Heart of a Young Wolf
Birth: unknown. Death: Dec. 3, 1873
Killed in battle with Tau-Ah-Kia. Gau-Tan was buried on Lone Wolf Mountain with his friend.
Tau-Ah- Kia - Sitting In The Saddle
Birth: unknown. Death: Dec. 3, 1873, Mitchell County, Texas, USA
Tau-Ah-Kia, 19-year-old son of the chief of the Kiowas was the only son of Lone Wolf I, signer of the Treaty of Little Arkansas. On Dec 3, 1873, Tau-ah-Kia was killed in Mitchell County, Texas, by Lt. Hudson of Ft. Clark, Texas. When a young Kiowa Brave died in battle, he was buried on the spot. This is the Kiowa way. News did not reach the Kiowa Camp until 13 Jan 1874 - they were camped in Devils Canyon area Lugret, Oklahoma. Ma-Ma-Day rode into camp with his face painted black. Tau-Ah-Kia no longer rode by his side.
Tau-Ah-kia's family tipi was torn down and family horses killed and family belongings burned. The old chief Lone Wolf I sat for days without eating and drinking.
Sitting in the Saddle (which in Indian language is Tau-Ankia), son of Lone Wolf I, died in Mitchell County Texas Dec 3, 1873. He is buried on Lone Wolf Mountian which was named after his father, Gua-Pah-Ko, which means in Indian Language Lone Wolf I.
Reference : Mooney, James B., History of the Kiowa Indian, U. S. bureay of Am. Ethnology. Washington Printing Co. 1906
Local legend claims that the Kiowa Indians in 1902 recovered the bones and reburied them.