Big Bow

Zépg̶àuiètd̶è or Big Bow (c. 1833 –c. 1900) was a Kiowa war leader during the 19th century, an associate of Guipago and Satanta.

Big Bow's name in Kiowa is Zépg̶àuiètd̶è, also spelled Zepko-ete and Za-ko-yea. He was born in Elk Creek in Indian Territory in about 1833. Big Bow also participated in the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, a failed attempt to push out settlers hunting buffalo on their tribal lands. Thomas Battey, a Quaker missionary close to the tribe, commented on his ferocious countenance. When the Kiowas were forced onto their reservation in 1875, Tene-angopte did not include Big Bow in the number of Kiowa chiefs and warriors to be deported to Fort Marion, Florida, and Big Bow and his family settled near Rainy Mountain in Indian Territory.