Contents Homelands 4 Society 6 Homes 8 Food 10 Clothing 12 Crafts 14 Family 16 Children 18 Traditions 20 War 22 Contact with Europeans 24 Quanah Parker 26 The Comanche Today 28 Glossary 30 Online Resources 31 Index 32
CHAPTER 1 Homelands The Comanche have lived in North America for thousands of years For many centuries the Comanche were part of the large Northern Shoshone tribe They lived in the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado In the 1600s the Comanche acquired horses from the Spanish who had started exploring North America The Comanche used these horses to travel to the plains of eastern Colorado and Kansas There they hunted buffalo The Comanche were fierce warriors and skilled horsemen Soon they pushed other tribes aside They moved farther south into Oklahoma and Texas The Comanche were most powerful in the early 1800s The tribe had about 10,000 people 4
The Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma are part of Comanche territory
