Was the Comanches tribe peaceful

Answer 1

As a general statement, Yes. The Cherokee (Tsalagi) assimilated to European ways of life faster than most other tribes, as they were an agriculturally based non-migratory tribe. That is not to say however that they were all peaceful or did not raid white settlements because they did, just not as often or as much as some of the other more famous raiding tribes.

Answer 2

Yes actually indeed the Chinook Indians were a peaceful tribe. They did not fight. They only fought when necessary. They settled their internal tribe disputes and other disputes with tribes in a spiritual and intelligencey series of contests.

PS: as a fun fact the chinooks flattened baby/toddlers heads with boards so their heads were flat and not curved. they did this for better balance of iniment objects on their head.

Answer 3

Some tribal people were peaceful until you violated tribal laws.

As an example:

If you were a European colonist and moved onto Indian Lands (Lands you did not own) and then "Claimed" the land (death penalty offense), put up a fence and keep others out (death penalty offense), polluted the land (death penalty offense), took more from the land than what you needed (death penalty offense).

The Navajo were often at odds with the Ute to the north and the Comanche to the east and the Spanish and later Mexicans in the Rio Grande valley to the east. Occasionally also some other Plains peoples such as the Kiowa or Plains Apache and the Mescalero Apache. One of the main causes of conflict was the slave trade in Navajo slaves. Especially the Ute and the Comanche (and later the Mexicans) raided and sold Navajos to the Spanish. It was estimated that in the 1840s there were about 4000 Navajo slaves in northern Mexico and the New Mexico areas. In turn, the Navajo raided back. Also, the Navajo raided for horses and sheep from the Spanish and the settled Pueblo towns and the Ute and Comanche. Sometimes they were in conflict with the surrounding Pueblo peoples and other times they were trading and intermarrying with them and at other times they were accepting them as refugees. About 39 of 72 Navajo clans have roots in other tribal groups, mainly the Pueblo peoples but also everyone else in the area.

When they Americans arrived in the 1846-8 these patterns were well established as they had started in the 1540s or even earlier. The Navajo had hoped the slaves would be freed or at least stopped but the Americans allowed it to continue. They continued until 1864 when Gen. Carleton and Kit Carson defeated them by burning all their crops, stores, houses and herds and cutting down their peach trees. However the Americans did not completely stop the slavery even after the Civil War. The New Mexican just lied to the authorities. As late as 1886 Navajo were still being issued passes to go into settlements to look for their relatives. New Mexicans had often paid as much a $200 a slave and were unwilling to let them go. Also they held them for many generations so the slaves lost their family roots.

Answer 4

The Cherokee Indians were a peaceful tribe because they had agricultue (farming, etc.) They hunted, but didn't rely on it to bring in the food. Because the Cherokee had agriculture, they weren't nomadic. Not being nomadic helped them a lot, because if they moved into another tribes area, they would spark a war. The Cherokee Indians were PEACEFUL.

Answer 5

The Pueblo Indians were a peaceful tribe that kept to themselves and just farmed crops. Other Indian tribes however were not as peaceful and would even steal crops from the Pueblo Indians.

Answer 6

well there both they were in wars and they brought peace by trying to stop wars.

Answer 7

They were pretty warlike. Many of their leader go into disputes.

Answer 8

yes the Chippewa were peaceful

Answer 9

Yes until the treaties were broke.