during the winter, a spiritual leader named isa-tai emerged among the quahadi band of comanches. isa-tai claimed to have the power to render himself and others invulnerable to their enemies, including to bullets, and was able to rally an enormous number of indians for large raids. also, a shift occurred within the political structure of the kiowa, bringing the war faction (influenced by the head chief guipago, or gui-pah-gho, sometimes known, by modern people, as lone wolf "the elder" to prevent confusion with mamay-dayte, later named lone wolf "the younger") into a greater position of influence than they had held previously.