COMANCHE INDIANS The Comanches‚ exceptional horsemen who dominated the Southern Plains‚ played a prominent role in Texas frontier history throughout much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Anthropological evidence indicates that they were originally a mountain tribe‚ a branch of the Northern Shoshones‚ who roamed the Great Basin region of the western United States as crudely equipped hunters and gatherers. Both cultural and linguistic similarities confirm the Comanches’ Shoshone origins
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seeing as he knows nothing about his family; but sure enough‚ he found a plethora of information. He found information about his mother’s side and information about his father’s‚ including the biography of Quanah Parker‚ the last chief of the free Comanche people. When my dad started telling me the story of Quanah Parker‚ I suddenly got very interested in my Native American background. How often does someone come across such a puzzling and unusual aspect of his/her background? I always thought that
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The Incompatible Element: The Horse among the Eastern Plains Villagers In the Eastern Plains Villages‚ nearly everyone had horses that were supplied by Jumano and Comanche traders. The benefits were nearly irresistible‚ and they started using horses to hunt‚ make sudden attacks‚ and became middlemen in the food trade industry. However‚ they soon learned that horses would destroy cornfields and consume large amounts of the dwindling supply of cottonwood bark. Within the Eastern Plains there were
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Plains Indian economy as railroads did on Anglo villages in the Midwest. Comanche: They migrated out of eastern Wyoming‚ Shoshone people who had lived in the upper Platte River drainage. With horses‚ the Comanche moved south‚ hunting and raiding over a huge swath of the southern plains. Texas Rangers : They were organized by the Republic of Texas to go after the Indians.” They made sorrow come into our camps‚” said Comanche leader. Ten Bears: He said：‘I was born upon the prairie where the wind
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Colin Calloway has done a masterful job of selecting and presenting an array of speeches‚ letters‚ documents‚ and drawings that tell compelling stories about the Plain Indians in the 1800’s. His introduction alone has just the right level of information and links basic themes and events to the documents presented in the text. In short‚ a model of how an introduction should be done. Colin Calloway’s intentions were to focus on the humanistic study of the Plain Indians views on how the West was lost
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There are many similarities and differences in a state as large as Texas. The state is divided into 4 geographic regions: Mountains & Basins‚ the Great Plains‚ the North Central Plains‚ and the Coastal Plains. Even in these regions there are enough differences for subdivisions. The Great Plains is divided into the Llano Basin‚ Edwards Plateau‚ and the High Plains. The North Central Plains is also divided into 3 sub-regions: Grand Prairie‚ Cross Timbers‚ and Rolling Plains. The Coastal Plains includes
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The Plains Indians lived in the area from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to Mexico. The most important tribes were the Sioux‚ Blackfoot‚ Cheyenne‚ Crow‚ Kiowa‚ and Comanche. The plains area was hotter than 100 degrees in the summer‚ and could drop to 40 degrees below zero with heavy snows in the winter. The region was so dry that when it rained it often flooded. The Great Plains was made up of grasslands‚ valleys‚ streams‚ and hills. There were very few
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Have you ever been in a place of green with forests and animals everywhere? Well‚ where some of the Native Americans lived‚ there were such things. Native American tribes such as the Crow lived in the Great Plains. The Crow tribe of the Great Plains were nomadic and followed the buffalo migrations which provided their food. This tribe spent a good part of the year living in camps that could easily be dismantled and moved to follow the buffalo migrations. Other tribes of the plains were more sedentary
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The Comanche group were Native Americans nation from the Great Plains. They were warriors of the South Plains who enjoyed hunting‚ fashion‚ and learning the English language and cultural beliefs are the bases for their lives. I feel the Comanche Tribe was a very proud and traditional based tribe. This information will prove that. The Comanche Code Talkers were an elite group of young men who were fluent in the Comanche language and used that knowledge‚ along with the training they were given by
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living the last great moment of their history. For more than a hundred years they had controlled the open range from the Smoky Hill River to the Red‚ from the headwaters of the Canadian to the fork of the Arkansas and Cimarron. In alliance with the Comanches‚ they had ruled the whole of the southern Plains. War was their sacred business‚ and they were among the finest horsemen the world has ever known. But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of
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