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Comanche Indians

A large break off of from the Soshone with the arrival of the horse. They moved south and populated areas of the southwest.

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Why did the Comanche Indians leave?

The Comanche were nomadic because they were hunter-gatherers. Their main source of food, clothing, housing, and tools were the vast herds of Buffalo who roamed the Plains. As the Buffalo migrated so did the Comanche.

When did the Comanche live?

The Comanche were Plain Indians that lived within an area that was known as Comancheria. This area was located in what is now known as the eastern area of New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, western Oklahoma, southwestern Kansas, and the majority of northwest Texas. The Comanche tribe was formed in 1680 when they broke away from the Shoshone tribe. They are still in existence today.

Did the Comanche Indians have guns?

several militiamen were killed by bullets, wether by friendly fire or by Indians is unclear, but the Indians there likely had no guns because they were instructed by Black Kettle to give up their weapons and stolen property to the nearby Fort Lydon to promote peace. Black Kettle was told to do this by Colonel Chivington who was looking to kill all of the Indians in the area, but Black Kettle didn't know that. He just wanted to live in peace and turned in his four white prisoners and told his tribe to give up their weapons. so probably not, but maybe a few kept their rifles.

What sport did the Comanche Indians play?

The Comanche Indians had several toys that they played with. The games they played were a hoop game, horse games, and just regular outside games like other children.

What tribe was Geronimo?

Chiricahua Apache

Geronimo was born of the Bedonkohe Apache tribe in No-doyohn Canon, Arizona, June, 1829, near present day Clifton, Arizona. The fourth in a family of four boys and four girls, he was called Goyathlay (One Who Yawns.) In 1846, when he was seventeen, he was admitted to the Council of the Warriors, which allowed him to marry. Soon, he received permission; married a woman named Alope, and the couple had three children.

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Geronimo was a fearsome man he came from the Apache tribe of Native India he led bloody battles through hard times he was a vital man and avoided being captured by 5000 troops but finally he surrendered he was taken to a Florida prison where he lived the rest of his lonely a now pathetic like in the prison cell he died in the year 1909.1829-1909.He was a astonishing man with great power and responsibility.He was an Eighty-Year-Old man which in that time was a long time to live and a possible long-life with no happy-ending.
Geronimo was from the Apache tribes.

How did Comanche prepare their food?

they either roast it or boil it over a fire with sticks

What is a famous quote by quanah Parker?

the white man goes inside church to talk about Jesus, the Indian goes inside to talk with Jesus

Do the Comanche Indians live today?

Most cherokeee in the US today live in either Oklahoma or North Carolina. They are the largest native tribe in the Unted States.

Who got scalped by the Indians?

The Europeans mostly, there were numerous occasions when they paid a bounty for scalps.

The Iroquois and Comanche used scalping to show the European settlers that they could be just as brutal as they were in the hopes it would deter them from taking their land.

What is the American Indian phrase for north wind?

Just a few words for wind in some of the languages of North America are:

Lakota...............tate

Hidatsa..............hutsi

Cheyenne...........háa'háeše

Blackfoot...........sopo

Mahican.............kshaxen (blown by wind)

Delaware...........kschachan (the wind blows)

Powhatan..........kikithamots

Shawnee...........mis-sich-kon-ne

Maliseet.............wocawson

Mohegan............wutun

Mohawk..............kawera'shatste

Navajo...............niyol, nilchi

Apache..............nilchi

Jicarilla..............nlchi

Arikara (Sanish)..huutuúnu'

Shahaptin (Yakama)..huli

Hopi..................hukba

Shoshone...........neai

Yaqui.................jeeka

What is the symbol of the Comanche Tribe?

The symbol is called the "star". It is actually a square, standing on one corner, with a short line extending outward from the center of each side of the square at a 90 degree angle. (To determine the length of those four lines, mentally draw imaginary lines connecting their ends, thus forming another square, with the corners of the original square touching the centers of each side of the newly formed square.)

Which part of Texas did the Comanche live in?

The Comanche ruled an large area on the Southern Plains which was known by the Spaniard as Comancheria (the land of the Comanche). The Comancheria extended from the Arkansas River in Kansas in the north to the Edwards Plateau in southcentral Texas in the south, from the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado (Staked Plains) of New Mexico to to the Cross Timbers in eastern Texas. In the end it encompass portions of Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico as Texas. On their raids the Comanche, together with the Kiowa and Kiowa Apache, ranged even further south, north and west. They had especially bad relations with the mighty Osage and Pawnee people to their north and northeast, and the various Apache nations to the south and west were traditional their worst foe. As Spanish allies they raided Western and Chiricahua Apache rancherias in Arizona as well as in Sonora and Chihuahua. The same they acted against the Lipan and Mescalero Apache in southern Texas, New Mexico as in Coahuila, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon.

What is the geography of the Comanche Indian area?

On great plains in part of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma

What were some achievements for the Comanche tribe?

The accomplishments are they can make amazing wigwams.

What cooking utensils did the Comanche Indians use?

Chinook Indians had bowls and spoons to eat with. Meat and fish were attached to sticks and roasted over the fire. They made tightly woven baskets and could boil water in them by placing hot rocks into water in the basket. Roots were sometimes cooked by digging a hole and filling it partly with burning coals and then leaves and finally the roots and everything was covered. This worked like an oven.

What do Comanches jumanos and coahuiltecans have in common?

One of the main things the Comanches, Jumanos, and Coahuiltecans had in common is that they inhabited the state of Texas.

Did American Indians colonize or immigrate to US?

Both. They colonized the South-Western United States from 1600 until 1848, when Mexico lost half its territory to the United States. Since that year, many Mexicans have immigrated into such lands.

What is the Comanche Indian translation for the word death?

There are more than 700 different Native American languages spoken in North and South America. You will have to be more specific. If you are not sure which language you are talking about, here is a partial list of the most common Native American languages in North America:

  • Abnaki, Eastern
  • Achumawi
  • Afro-Seminole Creole
  • Ahtena
  • Alabama
  • Aleut
  • Alsea
  • Angloromani
  • Apache, Jicarilla
  • Apache, Kiowa
  • Apache, Lipan
  • Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua
  • Apache, Western
  • Arapaho
  • Arikara
  • Assiniboine
  • Atakapa
  • Atsugewi
  • Barbareño
  • Biloxi
  • Blackfoot
  • Caddo
  • Cahuilla
  • Carolina Algonquian
  • Carolinian
  • Catawba
  • Cayuga
  • Chamorro
  • Chehalis, Lower
  • Chehalis, Upper
  • Cherokee
  • Chetco
  • Cheyenne
  • Chickasaw
  • Chimariko
  • Chinook
  • Chinook Wawa
  • Chippewa
  • Chitimacha
  • Choctaw
  • Chumash
  • Clallam
  • Cocopa
  • Coeur d'Alene
  • Columbia-Wenatchi
  • Comanche
  • Coos
  • Coquille
  • Cowlitz
  • Cree, Plains
  • Crow
  • Cruzeño
  • Cupeño
  • Dakota
  • Degexit'an
  • Delaware
  • Delaware, Pidgin
  • Esselen
  • Evenki
  • Eyak
  • Galice
  • Gros Ventre
  • Gwich'in
  • Halkomelem
  • Han
  • Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
  • Hawai'i Creole English
  • Hawai'i Pidgin Sign Language
  • Hawaiian
  • Hidatsa
  • Ho-Chunk
  • Holikachuk
  • Hopi
  • Hupa
  • Ineseño
  • Inupiaq
  • Inupiatun, North Alaskan
  • Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska
  • Iowa-Oto
  • Jemez
  • Jingpho
  • Kalapuya
  • Kalispel-Pend D'oreille
  • Kansa
  • Karkin
  • Karok
  • Kashaya
  • Kato
  • Kawaiisu
  • Keres, Eastern
  • Keres, Western
  • Kickapoo
  • Kiowa
  • Kitsai
  • Klamath-Modoc
  • Koasati
  • Koyukon
  • Kumiai
  • Kuskokwim, Upper
  • Kutenai
  • Lakota
  • Luiseño
  • Lumbee
  • Lushootseed
  • Mahican
  • Maidu, Northeast
  • Maidu, Northwest
  • Maidu, Valley
  • Makah
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy
  • Mandan
  • Mattole
  • Menominee
  • Meskwaki
  • Miami
  • Michif
  • Micmac
  • Mikasuki
  • Miwok, Bay
  • Miwok, Central Sierra
  • Miwok, Coast
  • Miwok, Lake
  • Miwok, Northern Sierra
  • Miwok, Plains
  • Miwok, Southern Sierra
  • Mohave
  • Mohawk
  • Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett
  • Mokilese
  • Molale
  • Mono
  • Muskogee
  • Nanticoke
  • Natchez
  • Navajo
  • Nawathinehena
  • Nez Perce
  • Nisenan
  • Nooksack
  • Nottoway
  • Obispeño
  • Ofo
  • Ohlone, Northern
  • Ohlone, Southern
  • Okanagan
  • Omaha-Ponca
  • Oneida
  • Onondaga
  • Osage
  • Ottawa
  • Paiute, Northern
  • Pawnee
  • Piro
  • Piscataway
  • Plains Indian Sign Language
  • Pomo, Central
  • Pomo, Eastern
  • Pomo, Northeastern
  • Pomo, Northern
  • Pomo, Southeastern
  • Pomo, Southern
  • Potawatomi
  • Powhatan
  • Purepecha
  • Purisimeño
  • Quapaw
  • Quechan
  • Quileute
  • Quinault
  • Salinan
  • Salish, Southern Puget Sound
  • Salish, Straits
  • Sea Island Creole English
  • Seneca
  • Serrano
  • Shasta
  • Shawnee
  • Shoshoni
  • Siuslaw
  • Skagit
  • Snohomish
  • Spanish
  • Spokane
  • Takelma
  • Tanacross
  • Tanaina
  • Tanana, Lower
  • Tanana, Upper
  • Tenino
  • Tewa
  • Tillamook
  • Timbisha
  • Tiwa, Northern
  • Tiwa, Southern
  • Tlingit
  • Tohono O'odham
  • Tolowa
  • Tonkawa
  • Tsimshian
  • Tübatulabal
  • Tunica
  • Tuscarora
  • Tutelo
  • Tututni
  • Twana
  • Umatilla
  • Unami
  • Ute-Southern Paiute
  • Ventureño
  • Wailaki
  • Walla Walla
  • Wampanoag
  • Wappo
  • Wasco-Wishram
  • Washo
  • Wichita
  • Wintu
  • Wiyot
  • Wyandot
  • Yakima
  • Yaqui
  • Yokuts
  • Yuchi
  • Yuki
  • Yurok
  • Zuni

Who was most famous Comanche Chief?

Perhaps the most famous Comanche is the last chief of the warlike Antelope Comanche, Quannah Parker. Quannah's mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, was a white captive and Quanna's father was the war cheif Peta Nocona.