Mow-way
| Mow-way (Shaking Hand, Hand Shaker; recte: Pushing-aside, Pushing-in-the-middle, Breaking-in-the-middle) | |
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| Kotsoteka Comanche leader | |
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| Born | 1825 ca. |
| Died | 1886 |
| Cause of death | pneumonia |
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Mow-way (1825 ca.–1886) (usually called by the whites “Shaking Hand” or “Hand Shaker”, but correctly as “Pushing-aside”, “Pushing-in-the-middle” or “Breaking-in-the-middle”), was the principal leader and war chief of the Kotsoteka band during the 1860s and 1870s, following the deaths of Kuhtsu-tiesuat (“Little Buffalo”) in 1864 and Tasacowadi (“Big Cougar”, “Big Spotted Cat”) in 1872.
Mow-way was a warrior and war leader who signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty in October 1867.
On November 27, 1868, General Philip H. Sheridan's winter campaign led to the Washita Massacre. Mow-way's Kotsoteka band and Piaru-ekaruhkapu’s Nokoni band fought Major Joel Elliott’s 7th U.S. Cavalry troop. Andrew W. Evans' Canadian River campaigns between November - December of 1868 against Kwahadi, Kotsoteka and Nokoni Comanche villages, forced Piaru-ekaruhkapu (“Big Red Meat”) and Tahka (“Arrowpoint”)’s Nokoni, Mow-way’s Kotsoteka, Parra-ocoom (“Bull Bear”)’s Kwahadi to surrender. In January of 1869, Mow-way surrendered to Colonel Benjamin Grierson. Grierson turned Mow-way over to Lawrie Tatum, the new Quaker agent at Fort Sill. Mow-way and the Kotsoteka soon left Fort Sill to rejoin their Kwahadi allies on the Staked Plains.
After May 1871, Mow-way and his band were associated with the hostile Kwahadi band, perhaps due to his associations among the Nokoni with old Kiyou, as well as Peta-nocona (“Lone Wanderer”), Parra-ocoom (“Bull Bear”), Kobay-o-burra (“Wild Horse”), Kobay-o-toho (“Black Horse”) and Peta-nocona’s son, Quanah Parker.
Mackenzie's troops attacked Mow-way's village near the North Fork of the Red River on September 28, 1872. Near McClellan Creek, in Gray County, Texas, the 4th U.S. Cavalry under Colonel Ranald Mackenzie, attacked Mow-way’s village, the Kotsoteka, while under subchief Kai-Wotche's leadership. The "battle" was really an unexpected storm on the village with the easy killing of 23 men, women, and children and the capture of between 120 -130 (124) women and children and more than 1.000 horses. The Army had managed to catch the camp by surprise. Most of the village's inhabitants were captured. The Kwahadi warriors led by Parra-ocoom ("Bull Bear"), Kobay-oburra ("Wild Horse") and Quanah induced the soldiers to quickly retreat.
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