Iron Jacket

Iron Jacket
Iron Jacket
Puhihwikwasu'u
Quahadi Comanche leader
	In office; 1820–1850
Personal details
Born	1790; Comancheria (possibly present-day Edward's Plateau, Texas)
Died	May 12, 1858; Little Robe Creek, Indian Territory (now Roger Mills County, Oklahoma)
Cause of death	Gunshot
Children	Peta Nocona
Known for	Comanche leader who wore a Spanish coat of mail into battle; Medicine man whom the Comanches considered as having the power to blow bullets aside with his breath; 1820–1850 led the Quahadi Comanche tribe during the Texas–Indian wars; Grandfather of the last Comanche chief, Quanah Parker;

Iron Jacket (Puhihwikwasu'u) (born c. late 1780s or early 1790s – died 1858) was a Native American War Chief and Chief of the Comanche Indians.

Iron Jacket was a Comanche chieftain and medicine man whom the Comanche believed had the power to blow bullets aside with his breath. His name probably resulted from his habit of wearing a Spanish coat of mail into battle, which protected him from most light weapons fire.

On May 12, 1858, the jacket (probably inherited from his ancestors) failed to protect him, and he was killed on the bank of the South Canadian River in the Battle of Little Robe Creek where his band of Quahadi Comanches fought a combined force of Texas Rangers and Brazos Reservation Indians led by John S. Ford, Shapley Prince Ross (the father of Lawrence Sullivan Ross), and Plácido, a Tonkawa chief.

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