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Guipago
Birth: unknown
Death: 1879
Nickname: Lone Wolf
Biography
Guipago, or Lone Wolf, was a leader of the Kiowa tribe during the turbulent period of transition by Great Plains tribes to life on U.S. reservations from the 1850s through the 1870s. He was one of several Native American delegates from the Southern Plains who traveled to Washington, D.C. in March 1863 to visit President Abraham Lincoln and to air their grievances. He is referenced as one of the "Indian Chiefs" in a letter written by Joseph Camp Griffein Kennedy to Frances Miller Seward, dated March 26, 1863.
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Guipago, or Lone Wolf, was a leader of the Kiowa tribe during the turbulent period of transition by Great Plains tribes to life on U.S. reservations from the 1850s through the 1870s. He was one of several Native American delegates from the Southern Plains who traveled to Washington, D.C. in March 1863 to visit President Abraham Lincoln and to air their grievances. He is referenced as one of the "Indian Chiefs" in a letter written by Joseph Camp Griffein Kennedy to Frances Miller Seward, dated March 26, 1863.