Amorous Man
Amorous Man was a civil chief of the "Honey-Eaters" or Penateka band of the Comanche.
The height of his prominence was in the 1830s and 1840s.
Early life
Nothing is known of his youth or early years. Amorous Man was a member of the same Comanche band, the "Honey-Eaters", as Buffalo Hump, Yellow Wolf, and Santa Anna, although he was older than these other war chiefs. Although known as a civil, or peace, chief, he was known to lead war parties during the 1820s. He was an important chief during the 1830s and 1840s who had diplomatic relations with Anglo settlements in Texas, following the Council House Massacre.Name
His name is variously spelled Pahhauca, Pahayoko, Payayuca, Pahajoko, and Taqquanno, which is translated as "The Amorous Man" or more colorful descriptions.Councils and treaties
Amorous Man represented the Penateka division at the Camp Holmes Council in 1835, signing the treaty with Gen. M. Arbuckle and Sen. Monfort Stokes, along with chiefs such Tawaquenah of the Kotsoteka or "Buffalo-Eaters" band and Iron Jacket of the Quahadi or "Antelope-Eaters" band of Comanche.In 1838, Amorous Man went to Houston, where he, Mukwoorʉ, Mupitsukupʉ, and Potsʉnakwahipʉ met Texas President Sam Houston and signed a treaty. Like most Comanche chiefs, Amorous Man came to white attention following the Council House Massacre in 1840. But, if Old Owl was the first among the Comanche chiefs to recognize that defeating the whites was unlikely, Pahayoko was, probably, the second among the Penatekas: in 1843 he accepted to meet the Indian agent Daniel Watson and, in 1844, he attended the Tehuacana Creek Council, along with Mupitsukupʉ, Potsʉnakwahipʉ, and other chiefs, not including Yellow Wolf and Santa Anna, but refused to sign the treaty. Nor was he part of the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty, signed by Mupitsukupʉ, Potsʉnakwahipʉ and Santa Anna.
Amorous Man, Mupitsukupʉ, Potsʉnakwahipʉ, Yellow Wolf, Santa Anna, Ketumse, Tosahwi, and Asa-havey signed the Tehuacana Treaty in April 1846, allowing the federal jurisdiction without getting any recognition of the borders of Comanche territory. Amorous Man was a signatory of the Butler-Lewis Treaty of 1846.