The Comanche supplied horses and mules to all comers. It was of such strategic importance that some scholars suggested that the Comanche broke away from the Shoshone and moved south to search for additional sources of horses among the settlers of New Spain to the south (rather than search for new herds of buffalo.) The Comanche have the longest documented existence as horse-mounted Plains peoples they had horses when the Cheyennes still lived in earth lodges. The horse became a key element in the emergence of a distinctive Comanche culture.
Contact with the Shoshones of Wyoming was maintained until the 1830s when it was broken by the advancing Cheyennes and Arapahoes.Īfter the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, various Plains peoples acquired horses, but it was probably some time before they were very numerous.Īs late as 1725, Comanches were described as using large dogs rather than horses to carry their bison hide "campaign tents". The Kotsoteka (‘Bison Eaters’) were probably among the first. The Proto-Comanche movement to the Plains was part of the larger phenomenon known as the “Shoshonean Expansion” in which that language family spread across the Great Basin and across the mountains into Wyoming. Pre-contact distribution of Uto-Aztecan languages Comanche Star Casino in Walters, Oklahoma.Comanche Spur Casino in Elgin, Oklahoma.They own 10 tribal smoke shops and four casinos: They have their own Department of Higher Education, primarily awarding scholarships and financial aid for members' college educations. The tribe operates its own housing authority and issues tribal vehicle tags. The tribe requires enrolled members to have at least 1/8 blood quantum level (equivalent to one great-grandparent). Their current Tribal Chairman is Mark Woommavovah.
Their tribal jurisdictional area is located in Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman and Harmon counties. The Comanche Nation is headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma.
Before 1740, French explorers from the east sometimes used the name Padouca for the Comanche it was already used for the Plains Apache. The Spanish adopted the Ute name for the people: kɨmantsi (enemy), and transliterated it into their own language phonetics. The earliest known use of the term "Comanche" dates to 1706, when the Comanche were reported by Spanish officials to be preparing to attack far-outlying Pueblo settlements in southern Colorado. The Comanche's autonym is nʉmʉnʉʉ, meaning "the human beings" or "the people". The Comanche Homecoming Annual Dance takes place in mid-July in Walters, Oklahoma. In the 21st century, the Comanche Nation has 17,000 members, around 7,000 of whom reside in tribal jurisdictional areas around Lawton, Fort Sill, and the surrounding areas of southwestern Oklahoma. ĭecimated by European diseases, warfare, and encroachment by Europeans on Comanchería, most Comanche were forced to live on reservations in Indian Territory by the late 1870s. Thousands of captives from raids on Spanish, Mexican, and American settlers assimilated into Comanche society. They took captives from other tribes during warfare, using them as slaves, selling them to the Spanish and (later) Mexican settlers, or adopting them into their tribe. They traded with neighboring Native American peoples, and Spanish, French, and American colonists and settlers.Īs European Americans encroached on their territory, the Comanche waged war on and raided their settlements, as well as those of neighboring Native American tribes.
Spanish colonists and later Mexicans called their historical territory Comanchería.ĭuring the 18th and 19th centuries, Comanche practiced a nomadic horse culture and hunted, particularly bison. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Comanche lived in most of present-day northwestern Texas and adjacent areas in eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, western Oklahoma, and northern Chihuahua. The Comanche were once part of the Shoshone people of the Great Basin. Originally, it was a Shoshoni dialect, but diverged and became a separate language. The Comanche language is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma. The Comanche / k ə ˈ m æ n tʃ i/ or Nʉmʉnʉʉ ( Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people" ) are a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Native American Church, Christianity, traditional tribal religion United States ( Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico)
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