![]() ![]() In 1840 he likely was one of the leaders dealing, on the Comanche and Kiowa side, with the Cheyenne and Arapaho in the negotiations for the peace and alliance agreement promoted by the Yamparika chief Ten Bears. ![]() Arbuckle and Senator Monfort Stokes, along with chiefs such Tawaquenah ("Sun Eagle") of the Kotsoteka and Amorous Man of the Penateka Comanche. In 1835, consequently to the Camp Holmes Council, he likely signed (his name was reported as Pohowetowshah, "Brass Man") the treaty with General M. Little else is known about Iron Jacket, except that he led dozens of terrifying raids on settlers from the 1820s to the 1850s in Texas and Mexico. He appears to have been both a hereditary chief and a War Chief. He became a chief among the Kwahadi, or Antelope-eaters, Band of the Comanche. He was born in the late 1780s or early 1790s, likely being son or nephew to Kwahadi chief Waakakwasi ("Trotter", called by Mexicans "Cota-de-Maya" or "Cota-de-Malla", i.e. Not much is known about Iron Jacket's early life. Ford, Shapley Prince Ross (the father of Lawrence Sullivan Ross), and Plácido, a Tonkawa chief. On May 12, 1858, the jacket (probably inherited from his ancestors) failed to protect him, and he was killed on the bank of the South Canadian River in the Battle of Little Robe Creek where his band of Quahadi Comanches fought a combined force of Texas Rangers and Brazos Reservation Indians led by John S. ![]() His name probably resulted from his habit of wearing a Spanish coat of mail into battle, which protected him from most light weapons fire. Iron Jacket was a Comanche chieftain and medicine man whom the Comanche believed had the power to blow bullets aside with his breath. late 1780s or early 1790s – died 1858) was a Native American War Chief and Chief of the Comanche Indians. ![]()
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