Native American Nations: Comanche

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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