He was an important chief during the 1830s and 1840s who had diplomatic relations with Anglo settlements in Texas, following the Council House Massacre.
His name is variously spelled Pahhauca,[1] Pahayoko, Payayuca,[2] Pahajoko, and Taqquanno,[3] which is translated as "The Amorous Man" or more colorful descriptions.
The 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 ("Sun Eagle") of the Kotsoteka or "Buffalo-Eaters" band and Iron Jacket (Comanche: Puhihwikwasu'u or Pohowetowshah, lit.
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 (Old Owl), Potsʉnakwahipʉ (Buffalo Hump), and other chiefs, not including Yellow Wolf and Santa Anna, but refused to sign the treaty.
The Amorous Man, Mupitsukupʉ (Old Owl), Potsʉnakwahipʉ (Buffalo Hump), Yellow Wolf, Santa Anna, Ketumse, Tosahwi, and Asa-havey (Wolf's Road or Starry Road) signed the Tehuacana Treaty in April 1846, allowing the federal jurisdiction without getting any recognition of the borders of Comanche territory.