They lived over a large swath of Texas and neighboring states. They lived in several bands (tribes) based on kinship. Their population then was estimated at between 7,000 and 30,000 people. The Comanche were powerful on the southern Great Plains by the early 1800s. The wars lasted until the mid- to late-1870s.Ĭomanches of West Texas in war regalia. government could not keep squatters off the Indian lands, and violent battles between Comanches and U.S. At the end of the hostilities, the Indians of the Comanche, Kiowa, and Kiowa Apache tribes signed an agreement to settle on a reservation in Oklahoma, some of which was stolen. The United States government reneged and war broke out again in 1867. Christopher “Kit” Carson made war on the Comanches in 1864 but was repelled.īut in 1865 the Comanche and allied Kiowa tribes entered into a treaty that gave them western Oklahoma. ( Public Domain)īy the 1860s, the Americans had enough of a presence in the region to mount more forceful challenges against the Comanche. For a time.Ī Comanche warrior named "Ako" and his horse, photographed 1892. Also, the Comanche were fiercely resisting Europeans encroachment on their territory. The late Howard Zinn said in his book A People’s History of the United States that the Dutch introduced scalping to the New World. The Comanche have been criticized for their brutality, but in many cases, it was no worse than what some Europeans were doing. Comanche torture was described as brutal and included burning people. They also tortured captives, some accounts say. ( Public Domain) Comanche Wars, Comanche Tortureīy many accounts, the Comanche were merciless in war, killing all adult male captives, killing babies and abducting children between the ages of 3 to 10. Gwynne, both coasts of the United States were settled before the central region primarily because of the Comanche.Ī group of Comanche watch on a caravan travelling through a Trans Pecos valley in West Texas (1850) by Lee Arthur Tracy. According to a story on NPR.com featuring author S.C. They killed or forced out Pueblo, Apache, and Jumano Indians in the southern Plains.Ĭomanche warriors kept the Spanish from moving farther north in Texas and they kept the French from moving farther west from Louisiana. In the case of the Comanche, it’s different, at least for a time. Usually, the history of Native American tribes when they interact with Europeans is a tale of domination, slavery, displacement, and death-of the Indians. The Tragedies that Befell the Five Civilized Tribes that were Forced to Trek the Trail of Tears.Kickapoo Nation Was Scattered and Driven South from Michigan to Mexico.The Nomadic Survival Tactics of the Shoshone Tribe.According to some reports, they nearly wiped out the Apache people. Their later territory to the south overlapped with several other tribes, whom they drove out through war. They speak an Uto-Aztecan language that is still the same as spoken by the Shoshone people of today. The Comanche were a Shoshone tribe when they lived farther north. They adopted the horse into their culture in the 17th century and quickly conquered vast tracts through subjugation and warfare. They came to dominate their new territory. The Comanche in the 1600s moved from the mountains in the North onto the Southern Plains. They were then in turn conquered, after many struggles, by invading people of European descent. The history of the Native American Comanche tribe includes their move from ancestral homelands in Wyoming to more southerly parts and conquering new lands.
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