MOUNTAIN WOLF WOMAN

MOORE, JESSIE ELIZABETH RANDOLPH

(Chickasaw ; 1871-October 7, 1956), was a State official in the Oklahoma government, the second woman to hold such a position. She was also a lawyer and a leader in the Democratic Party.

The daughter of William Colville Randolph and his wife, Sarah Ann (ne Tyson) Randolph, she was born in Panola County, Chickasaw Nation, in what is now Southwestern Bryan County, Oklahoma.

William Colville Randolph served as an officer in the Confederate Army, under General Douglas H. Cooper, commander of the Confederate Indian forces in the Indian Territory during the War between the States. As a successful cattleman, Mr. Randolph moved his family in 1874, to the White Bead Hill region North of the Washita in what was then the Chickasaw Nation, where he established a ranch. The log schoolhouse built on the Randolph ranch was the first school attended by their daughter, Jessie Elizabeth. The family moved a few years later to Gainesville, Texas, where she went to school, and still later, she was sent to St. Xavier Academy at Denison, and then to Kidd's Seminary at Sherman, subsequently known as Kidd-Key College, the Alma Mater for the daughters of many prominent families from the Indian Territory.

The Randolphs returned to the ranch in the Chickasaw Nation where their daughter Jessie, was a charter member of the Presbyterian Church first organized at White Bead Hill in 1886. She taught a year in Pierce Institute, a Methodist school established in the community (1884), before her marriage in 1889 at Pauls Valley, to E. M. Moore of an old Southern family of Tennessee.

Mr. and Mrs. Moore made their home on a ranch South of Purcell for ten years, after 1890, during which he served for a time as U.S. Deputy Marshal of the District. Mr. Moore died in 1925.

In 1901, they had moved to Pauls Valley where Mrs. Moore was a leader for many years in club, civic and church life. She was president of the Pauls Valley Alternate Saturday Club, and a member of the Eastern Star. She remained a member of the First Presbyterian Church--the old White Bead Presbyterian Church that had been moved to Pauls Valley, in which she taught a Sunday school class. Members of this class, among them Mac Q. Williamson, who became Attorney General of Oklahoma, still remember and praise Mrs. Moore as a wonderful teacher and Christian leader.

In 1914, Mrs. Moore was appointed Deputy Supreme Court Clerk, with the office in Oklahoma City, the State capital. She studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1923. The following year, she was appointed Assistant Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for Oklahoma. She was nominated in the Democratic primaries in 1926, as candidate for Clerk of the State Supreme Court, and won by a handsome majority in the statewide elections, the second woman in Oklahoma history elected to a State office. At the end of her term of office at the beginning of the nationwide depression, Mrs. Moore was appointed to head the Women's Division of Emergency Relief in Oklahoma County. In this work, she initially planned and organized the entire set-up for this Emergency Relief on a statewide basis, her plan of organization for Oklahoma being adopted and put into force on a nationwide scale by the Federal Government in 1933. Active as a leader in the Democratic Party, she headed the Indian organization of the Party in the campaign for the election of Governor Robert S. Kerr in 1942. She was elected in both 1940 and 1944 as Presidential Elector from Oklahoma, and made the trip to Washington in the duties of this office in the election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

For her outstanding contributions in both private and public life, Mrs. Moore was inducted into membership in the “Oklahoma Hall of Fame” by the Oklahoma Memorial Association in it's annual Statehood Day Banquet on November 16, 1937. She was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society consecutively for thirty-seven years.

Mrs. Moore was a member of the Chickasaw Council for many years, both during the office of the late Governor Douglas H. Johnston of the Chickasaw Nation and that of Governor Floyd Maytubby. Her last great pleasure and honor, in the Indian historical interests was when she served as an official representative of the Chickasaw Nation in the ceremonies at Memphis, Tennessee, dedicating the newly formed “Chickasaw Wing of the United States Air Force” on September 26, 1954. She made the flight to Memphis in a special plane for the event, with other members of the Chickasaw Governor's party. Her report on these ceremonies at Memphis, together with some notes on Chickasaw history was published in The Chronicles of Oklahoma for Summer, 1955, a significant contribution to the history of this Indian nation.

After an illness of more than a year, Mrs. Jessie R. Moore passed away, at the McCurdy Memorial Hospital at Purcell.

At her funeral, Mr. Haskell Paul quoted his mother Victoria Paul as saying: “She was in every part a lady. She could look the world in the face with a clear conscience. In all the years I knew her, I never heard her speak, even once, any evil of anyone; and she was a friendly woman. She visited the sick, no matter if they had a contagious disease, and would stay and help if they needed her and carry food if they needed it, which was often the case in early times.”

She was survived by one daughter, and many other relatives. Burial was made in the old White Bead Cemetery beside the graves of her other children who had died many years before.

~MOORE, LYMAN SR.

(Creek; 1837-December 11, 1881), was an interpreter who spoke several languages. He also worked as a County Clerk, and owned his own store.

He was born in Sumpter County in the Western part of Alabama, and later immigrated to the Indian Territory. He received his education at Arkansas College in Fayetteville, Arkansas, around 1858.

During the early 1860's, Lyman Moore, Sr. traveled through the Indian country in the West, trading with the Indians, buying furs and pelts. At that time, his family operated a boarding house at Skullyville, at the Choctaw Agency. The boarding house was known as the Annesley Boarding House and Skullyville was then a flourishing place, taking its name from two Choctaw words “Iskvli Tamaha” meaning in English, “Moneytown,” the location where Choctaw tribal business was carried on and tribal annuities paid.

His first wife was Jenny Annesley, of Choctaw and white descent. They had a daughter and a son. After she died, Moore lived in Van Buren, Arkansas, where the United States Court was then located. He acted as interpreter there from the close of the Civil War until the court was removed from Van Buren to Fort Smith, where he eventually removed as well. He spoke several different Indian languages.

On December 21, 1869, Lyman Moore, Sr married as his second wife, Frances Eugenia McClain, at Skullyville, where he owned a home, operated a general store and was County Clerk.

Lyman Moore, Sr. and Frances McClain Moore were survived by seven children.

~MOORE, LYMAN JR. (Creek; October 23, 1874-?), was the son of Lyman Moore, Sr. and his second wife Frances Eugenia McClain.

Born in Skullyville, Moore, Jr. was County Clerk and Treasurer of Skullyville County, in the Choctaw Nation before Oklahoma became a State. He served as Vice-President of the First National Bank of Spiro and at the organization of the Farmers State Bank of Spiro in 1920. After the Farmers State Bank absorbed the First National Bank, he became its President.

He was a Mason, Blue Lodge and a Shriner. He was, for many years, an active businessman, banker and farmer living at Spiro.

He married Ida McCurtain in June of 1899, who was the daughter of the late Principal Chief, Jack McCurtain and his wife, Jane Frances (Austin) McCurtain. They had three children.

~MOORE, RUSSELL “BIG CHIEF”

(Pima ; August 13, 1913- ), is a jazz trombonist and leading Indian musician was born in Komatke, Arizona. Growing up on the Gila River reservation, Russell loved to hear the Pima chants sung by his grandfather. He began playing music on homemade instruments and joined the mission school band. At the age of 11, when his father died, Russell moved to Illinois and lived with his uncle, a music teacher. He learned to play the piano, drums, and several brass instruments, including the trombone, and by 1928 he was playing in the National Guard Band in Chicago.

In the next several years Russell Moore blew his trombone with several big-name jazz bands, including that of Lionel Hampton in 1935, Louis Armstrong from 1943 to 1945, and Sidney Becket from 1946 to 1948. For a while, in Philadelphia and Columbus, he led his own bands. In 1949 Moore participated in the Paris Jazz Festival, and in the 1950s he toured France and other European countries. Soon he was performing all over the world. He has appeared in many concerts, made many recordings, appeared on TV, and played at the Kennedy and Johnson presidential inaugural balls. In 1959 he made special concert tours to South Dakota and Arizona under sponsorship of the National Congress of American Indians to raise scholarship funds for Indian youths. Moore is married to Ida Powlas. Their children are Randall and Amy.

~MOPOPE, STEPHEN (ca.1898-1974), born near Red Stone Baptist Mission, on the Kiowa Reservation in Oklahoma, was the grandson of a Kiowa warrior and a Mexican captive. Trained by his uncle in the traditional style of painting on tanned hide, Mopope was one of five youths selected for training at the University of Oklahoma Art Department under the tutelage of Susie Peters and Oscar Jacobson. He later proved to be an exceptional dancer and, along with Jack Hokeah figured prominently in exhibitions and gatherings. His life of artistic activity was marked by exhibitions in various museums and galleries throughout the country, including the commission for murals in several United States federal buildings, as well as business structures in Oklahoma. Awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the Indian Arts and Craft Board in 1966, he died a highly respected artist whose work graces galleries throughout the world.

~MOQUIHUIX

(Aztec; fl. 15th century), also known as Xoquiuix and Moquiuixtli, was the last independent ruler of Tlatelolco, the commercial center of the Valley of Mexico and sister city to the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.

Moquihuix ruled from about 1460 to 1473 when he led troops from Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, Xochimilco, and Cuitlahuac in an unsuccessful civil war against forces from Tenochtitlan led by the sixth Aztec emperor, Axayacatl.

Several reasons are given for the conflict between the formerly peaceful, rival cities, which were only one mile apart on an island in Lake Texcoco. The plausible explanation, that Moquihuix mistreated his wife, Chalchiuhnenetzin, also Axayacatl's sister, was probably the immediate reason.

There are also two accounts of Moquihuix's death. One version, probably the best, says he fought bravely but was captured on top of the temple and hurled to his death. The other says he fled to the temple and leaped, committing the unheard of sin of suicide in the face of death.

~MORAN, HOMER L. (Dakota-Brule ; April 28, 1916- ), is a retired Lieutenant-Colonel in the United States Air Force who now works for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Born in Wood, South Dakota, he attended Northern State College, where he received both a B.A. and a B.S. degree.

Moran enlisted in the Army three months before the attack on Pearl Harbor and was assigned to flight training with the Army Air Corps. He recieved his wings and was commissioned a second lieutenant.

He flew bombing missions in several places including France, England, North Africa, and Italy. He also flew bombing missions over Germany, the last being in 1943. Next, he was assigned to train pilots and aerial gunners and was then named to the rank of squadron commander. After the war, he remained in the service and was stationed in several different states. He was then sent to Yokota air base in Japan where he refueled tankers in a KD-29 plane.

After retiring from the service in 1965, Moran began working in various capacities for the B.I.A., including as a community living specialist and a vocational training specialist He has also been an employment assistance program officer in different places such as Los Angeles, Aberdeen, South Dakota, in Anchorage, Alaska and on the Navajo Reservation.

During his years in the service, he was given several military awards including: the Distinguished Flying Cross, one oak leaf cluster; an Air Medal, three oak leaf clusters; a Presidential Citation, one oak leaf cluster; and six campaign battle stars.

He is married to Esther Fredberg.

~MORGAN, VANESSA J.

(Pima-Kiowa; October 5, 1952- ), also known as Paukeigope “Strikes the Enemy Down in Running Water”, makes pure, undiluted Kiowa style of clothing for both men and women. She also makes buckskin dresses, women's leggings, cradleboards, lances, shields, shirts, men's leggings, dolls, bow cases and horse equipment.

She attended Southwestern State University at Weatherford, Oklahoma where she majored in English. She also attended Cameron University in Lawton.

Since early childhood, Paukeigope has been steeped in the culture of her elders, learning various aspects of traditional Kiowa ways. When she was eleven years old, she and her sisters were taught beadworking and other crafts by their grand-mother for about eight years. She had many opportunities to learn tribal customs through participation in Indian ceremonial dances and events.

Paukeigope's work is included in several Oklahoma museums including the Kiowa Tribal Museum and Resource Center, Carnegie (miniature painted tipis, 1982/83) Stoval Museum, Norman and the Oklahoma Historical Society's Museum of the Western Prairie, Altus (buckskin dress and leggings, 1983). In 1984, she was honored as participant in the Santa Fe Indian Market where she received two First Place and two Third Place awards for her work.

She is a member of the Southwestern Association of Indian Affairs, Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Indian Arts and Crafts Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has been involved in the Little Rabbit Society of the Kiowa Tribe for a considerable time and the Kiowa Black Leggins Warrior Society. Paukeigope is married to Robert Morgan and they have three children.

~MORI, IGNACIO

(Yaqui; ?-1926), was an important ally of the Yaqui Indian general Luis Matus, and joined him in breaking with General Luis Bule, who had made peace with the Mexican government in 1909. Mori's execution in 1926 for misusing government funds led to the climactic incident at Vicam Switch, Sonora state, where Matus' Yaqui army threatened the life of the politician Alvaro Obregon.

~MORNING BIRD(Blackfeet; ?-?), was a brave of the Kainah or Blood branch of the Blackfeet tribe. (See portrait on next page.)

~MORNING GUN

(Blackfeet ; ?-?), was a chief who was known for his humor and kindness. Yet he left a record of extreme bravery as a warrior. (See portrait on next page.)

~MORRIS, CHRISTINE

(Blackfoot; May 29, 1932-), is an educator whose specialty is sociology and anthropology.

Born in Red Buttes, Wyoming, she attended the University of Wyoming, where she received her B.A. degree. She continued her education at Montana State University and was awarded an M.S. degree.

She worked her way through college at many different jobs including as a cook, waitress, an assistant librarian and a laboratory assistant. She is very much connected to her Indian heritage due to her upbringing. “I was raised in poverty,” she remembers, “but my father taught me a love of the land, a love of beauty and a deep respect for all living things.” She says these are the reasons she became a teacher “and why I chose to teach in my special fields.” She encourages Native youth to pursue their education.

She is a member of the National Education Association, the Washington Education Association and the Indian Educators Association of the Northwest.

She is married to Anthony G. Morris and they have three children.

~MORRISON, BUFORD (Creek; November 24, 1919-), is a Superintendent with the Miccosukee Agency for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Born in Lenna, Oklahoma, he attended Haskell Institute.

His first position with the B.I.A was as a $45.00 a month clerk at the Jicarilla Agency in New Mexico. He moved up through the ranks, working at various facilities such as the Papago Agency, the Haskell Institute, the Anadarko Area Office and the Potawatomi Agency. He worked at the latter agency for thirteen years, first as an area field representative and then as a superintendent.

Morrison strongly believes in the self-determination theory, believing that Natives have the ability to attain success without government assistance. Although he accomplished a great deal without a formal education, he advises Indian youth to not follow that same path due to the struggle he went through. He tells them to “Get in there and make the most of every educational opportunity that becomes available.

Morrison served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1946, in the European Theatre. He is married to Barbara Jane Shepherd.

~MORRISON, GEORGE

(Chippewa; September 30,1919- ), is an artist, who became a professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota in 1973.

Born in Grand Marais, Minnesota, he attended the Minneapolis School of Art. He was a member of the Art Students League in New York from 1943 to 1946 and he later traveled to France to study at the University of Aix-Marseille in 1952.

Aside from teaching special classes in painting and drawing at numerous art schools, he was an assistant professor, then an associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design during the years 1963 to 1970. He worked as a visiting professor of art and American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota from 1970 until he accepted his current position.

Morrison has held numerous one, two and three-man shows in the United States and foreign countries such as France, South America, and Japan. His work is in many distinguished permanent collections such as the Whitney Museum in New York; New York University; the Philadelphia Museum; and the Pacific Northwest Indian Center in Spokane; among others.

He is a member of Audobon Artists; the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors; and the Museum of Rhode Island School of Design; among others.

Morrison has had a biography written about him entitled, George Morrison: The Story of an American Indian, by Dragos Kostich. He is married to Hazel Belvo and they have one child.

~MOSELY, PALMER SIMEON (Chickasaw-Choctaw; September 16, 1851-October 3, 1908), served as Governor of his tribe.

He was born at Tam-a-ho-shay, in the Choctaw Nation, to the Rev. Lafayette Mosely, a full-blood Choctaw Indian who was a Presbyterian minister and his full-blood Chickasaw Indian wife.

Palmer Simeon Mosely was a full-blood Indian although he is borne upon the approved rolls of the Chickasaw Indians opposite roll number 2020 as of the one-half blood. This enrollment is correct insofar as it reflects only his quantity of Chickasaw Indian blood.

He was a character of much resource and ability, his native elements being reenforced by his scholastic training of four years at Crocker School in Nashville, Tennessee. Upon his return from school, he engaged in farming and in 1875, entered the domain of Chickasaw politics when he was chosen as interpreter for the legislature. He was elected a member of that body in 1877 and in 1882, became a county judge. He began his engaging service as National Interpreter in the fall of 1884 with the advent of Governor Jonas Wolf and occupied this position at various times. He was perhaps the most efficient and capable interpreter among the Chickasaws.

The scholastic attainments of Palmer S. Mosely were further recognized by his election as Superintendent of Schools in the fall of 1885, in which capacity he served for many yars. He became a trustee of the old Wapanucka Academy, which was then known as Rock Academy situated some five miles Northwest of Wapanucka, in September of 1892 and served as National Secretary of the Chickasaw Nation during the incumbency of Governor Jonas Wolf from 1892 to 1894.

The law which created the celebrated Dawes Commission was passed by Congress on March 3, 1893. This commission visited the tribes in the old Indian Territory early in the succeeding year and although its members were received with respect, they experienced difficulty in awakening much interest among the Indians.

The Dawes Commission contacted the Chickasaw leaders in 1895 and ‘96, but met with small response. Governor Mosely expressed his views concerning the Commission in his message to the legislature on January 28, 1896: “In view of the fact that the Dawes Commission has made a strong report in favor of destroying our tribal autonomy and a delegation of noncitizens having been sent to Washington to urge upon Congress the passage of townsite laws and other legislation detrimental to the welfare of our poeple and the other nations having their representations in the field of action guarding their interests. I deem it my duty to especially urge upon you the necessity of a representation or representatives being sent by our nation and trust your honorable body will concur with my views and pass some act authorizing a delegation to Congress.”

At the tribal election held in the fall of 1896, Governor Mosely did not seek a second consecutive term but supported the efforts of Ex-Governor Wolf to return to the governorship. Robert M. Harris was chosen to succeed Governor Mosely, who was elected to the tribal senate. The famous Atoka Agreement was entered into by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations on April 23, 1897, and the Chickasaw Nation as a political entity was on its way out. Palmer S. Mosely was a member of the delegation which conferred with the Commission and, with keen foresight, became one of the signers of this agreement. The single term of Governor Harris was succeeded by the two consecutive terms of Douglas H. Johnston which terminated in the fall of 1902.

In the fall of 1902, ex-Governor Palmer S. Mosely reentered the arena of Chickasaw politics in one of the most hectic campaigns in the history of those Indians. His vision of conditions seems to have undergone a decided change. He was living in comfortable environs and at that time was a vice-president of the Bank of Tishomingo. As the candidate of the Progressive Party, he was matched against ex-Governor William L. Byrd of the Full Blood or Pullback Party. The defined issue of this campaign was the so-called Supplemental Agreement which was approved by Congress on July 1, 1902. This Agreement detailed the provisions for the complete allotment of the tribal domain and the ultimate dissolution of the tribal government. Mosely favored the Agreement while Byrd was in bitter opposition and sought to enlist the full-bloods to his support. The election of Governor Mosely on August 13, 1902, although rather feebly expressed by a bare majority of six votes, committed the Chickasaws to the allotment policy of the Government. The new governor was inducted into office on September 1st and immediately called a special election for September 25th at which the Agreement was submitted to the electorate.

In his first message to an adjourned session of the legislature later in September, 1902, the governor adroitly expressed himself upon the ratification issue to come before the Chickasaws for determination on the 25th: “During the campaign just closed, I felt it unwise to make the Supplementary Agreement an issue and thus obscure the issue raised by it with those of local politics, but by reason of the violent opposition of our opponents this was impossible. It is now apparent to all that my election and the defeat of those opposed to the agreement is a rebuke to them and a definite reflection of a sentiment favoring its ratification. Since the ratification of the Supplementary Agreement by Congress I have considered it fully and am now firmly of the opinion that it should be ratified. Inasmuch as my predecessor, Hon. Douglas H. Johnston in his retiring annual message just communicated to you has discussed it in detail, I deem it sufficient to refer to the same by approval and commend it to the careful consideration of our people.”

The Chickasaws ratified the Supplemental Agreement at the election held on September 25, 1902, and the long fight against the pressure of the white intruders, which had persistently encouraged the policy of the Government, was now in its final stages. Instead of the white man adap ting himself to the environments of what hitherto had been strictly an Indian country, the Indian now faced the alternative of adjusting himself to the different patter of life of the white man.

The regime of Governor Mosely witnessed the preliminary steps by the Government in the preparation of the tribal rolls and the initial allotment of the tribal domain. His tenure drew to a close and at the last tribal election held among the Chickasaws in the fall of 1904, Douglas H. Johnston was chosen as his successor and functioned as Governor until his death on June 28, 1939.

Governor Mosely was a man of medium build and of a pleasant, agreeable and tolerant poise. He was rather debonair and handsome in appearance. During his last term, he resided at Wapanucka and after his retirement, lived at the old farm place near Bromide. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

The Governor married Lizzie Holloway and after her death, married Amanda Greenwood, who survived him Palmer S. Mosely passed away on October 3, 1908 and rests in the old family burial ground on the farm, where his grave is suitably marked.

MOSES (Sinkiuse; ca. 1829-1899), also known as Quelatikan, or Quelatican,
“The Blue Horn,” was a leader, born at Wenatchee Flat in central
Washington. He was the son of Sluktalthscosum and Karneetsa and baptiz ed Moses while attending Henry M. Spaulding's mission school. After the Treaty of Walla Walla was signed in 1855, some of the tribes agreed to move to reservation lands in return for government guarantees of safety. Others, including Moses, participated in numerous battles of protest. Upon the death of his father in 1858, Moses became leader of all of the tribes in the area. He became a successful diplomat, staving off the white demands for Indian confinement in reservations.

More and more government pressure culminated in the outbreak of warfare leading to the Bannock War. Moses kept his people away from conflict, insisting he was a man of peace. He was nonetheless arrested in 1879, paroled, and sent to the Department of the Interior in Washington to negotiate directly. He won most of his points and was given a reservation. Continued unrest among his people and broken government promises eventually forced the band to move onto the Colville Reservation where they still live today. Moses died at his home near Wilbur, Washington, and was buried in the Chief Moses cemetery on the Colville Reservation near Nespelem, Washington.

~MOUNTAIN CHIEF

(Blackfoot; ca. 1848-1942), also known as Ninastoko or
Nin-na-stoko was born on Old Man River in southern Alberta, Canada, was
the last hereditary chief of the Blackfoot people. He led his warriors against the Crow and Atsina at the age of 18 and was made war chief of his people the following year and in the battle against Kutenai he nearly lost his life in a hand-to-hand fight with Cut Nose. He was badly wounded in the leg in 1873, when he fought against the Crow, and limped for the rest of his life as a result of this injury. He was a signer of the Treaty of 1886 which ceded the lands east of the Sweet Grass Hills, now Glacier Park, and an active representative of his people, meeting with four different Presidents: McKinley, Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson. He assisted General Hugh L. Scott for several decades recording the Plains sign language. Mountain Chief was a remarkably colorful person, becoming well known in the Glacier Park area. He went blind in old age and died on the reservation at the age of 94. He was buried in the cemetery at Browning, Montana.

~MOUNTAIN WOLF WOMAN (Winnebago; ca. 1884-Nov.9, 1960), also known as Kehachiwinga “Wolf's Mountain Home Maker”, was a woman who became the subject of Nancy Lurie's remarkable autobiography, Mountain Wolf Woman in 1958. Born into the Thunder clan at East Fork River, Wisconsin, the daughter of Charles Blowsnake and Lucy Good-village, both full-blooded Winnebago, she was forced into marriage by her brothers. She later left her first husband and was forced into yet another marriage. She had a total of 11 children, 8 of whom lived, 39 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. A Christian for a time in her youth, she was a member of the Peyote religion for the remainder of her life. Peyote is a hallucinogenic cactus plant which brought intense religious and mystical experience to its consumers and has become known as the sacrament used by members of the Native America Church. The autobiography of her life provided many white Americans understanding and insight into this religious practice as well as the life of a contemporary Indian woman. Mountain Wolf Woman lived to enjoy her fame, succumbing to pneumonia at the age of 76, in Black River Falls, Wisconsin.