Black Dog (Osage chief)

[1][2] He took his band on hunts as far away as Santa Fe, then part of Mexico, possibly earning the designation Manka-Chonka in battles with the Comanche.

His band set up a village they named Pasuga (Big Cedar), located on an ancient earthwork mound built by an earlier indigenous culture.

After fighting well as a young warrior against the raiding Comanche in that region, Zhin-gawa-ca was given a new name, Manka-Chonka, meaning Black Dog.

[1] Black Dog was a contemporary of, and shared power in the tribe with, two other noted chiefs: Clermont (Claremore)[a] and Pawhuska.

[4] It started from their winter territory east of Baxter Springs in Kansas and extended southwest to their summer hunting grounds at the Great Salt Plains in present-day Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.

[9] The cave later provided a hiding place for the remaining residents of Pasuga to escape being massacred by Cherokee during the so-called Battle of Claremore Mound in 1817.