In 1915, the United States Congress passed a law in recognition of his service making him an active duty sergeant for life.

I-See-O was born in the ancestral Kiowa homeland along the Central Great Plains in the Indian Territory in the area of modern-day Fort Larned National Historic Site in Kansas.

The negotiations at Medicine Lodge resulted in three treaties between the United States and three Native American nations: the Kiowa, the Comanche, and the Plains Apache.

[2] Late in his life, I-See-O was able to identify the exact location where the Medicine Lodge Treaty was negotiated and signed for a commission which wanted to build a monument to the event.

During the Ghost Dance phenomenon of the early 1890s, I-See-O helped in persuading the Apache and Kiowa tribes not to go to war.

In 1913, I-See-O (about the age of 64) left the Army and went to live with his family in the Big Bend of the Washita River.

Fortunately for I-See-O, his old friend Lieutenant, now Major General, Hugh L. Scott was Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

Scott heard about I-See-O's difficulties and made a personal appeal to the Secretary of War in his behalf.

General Scott, in a letter to the commanding officer at Fort Sill, dated February 1, 1915, said: "I would like to have you let him live on the reservation or out among his people, as he elects, and see that he gets pay, clothing, and rations from your Quartermaster, and that when his time expires he be re-enlisted as a sergeant until he dies.