Mama'nte He Walks-Above / Sky Walker | |
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| Kiowa leader | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1835 |
| Died | July 28, 1875 Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, U.S. |
| Cause of death | sickness (possibly venom) |
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Mamante or Mamanti ("He Walks-Above", "Sky Walker"), also known as Swan (c. 1835 – July 28, 1875) was a Kiowa medicine man.[1]
His name is also translated in several ways, including Man-on-a-Cloud, Sky Walker, Walking Above, or Walks-in-the-Sky. After the head chief Dohäsan died in 1866, naming Guipago, or Lone Wolf the Elder, as his own designated heir and consequently establishing Satanta as the second-ranking chief, Mamanti assumed the role of a war chief, but he got real power when he gained screech owl medicine and became an owl prophet.[1][clarification needed] His rivalry as a medicine man was versus Napawat (No Mocassins), a powerful and influential man friendly to Tene-angopte.
Mamanti had two wives. He had several children with both of his wives, and also an adopted settler-born son with red hair named Tehan or Tejan.[1][2]