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College of the Muscogee Nation, Okmulgee; Comanche Nation College, Lawton (defunct) Connors State College, Warner (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) East Central University, Ada (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College, Miami (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution)
Comanche Nation College was a two-year, open admissions, American Indian tribal college. It was located in Lawton, Oklahoma , the capital of the Comanche Nation . The school was chartered in 2002 by the Comanche Nation Business Committee. [ 1 ]
The Comanche / k ə ˈ m æ n tʃ i / or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people" [4]) is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma. [1] The Comanche language is a Numic language of the Uto ...
Elliott Canonge, linguist. Elliott D. Canonge (1921-September 21, 1971) [1] was an author and linguist [2] [3] who worked closely with the Comanche and Alaskan Inuit and Athabaskan groups in documenting their language and culture.
The organization offers technical assistance to its member colleges and develops institutions, and leads efforts to promote the Tribal College Movement. In 1989, AIHEC established the American Indian College Fund (AICF) to raise scholarship funds for American Indian students at qualified tribal colleges and universities.
Lawton is a city in and the county seat of Comanche County, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. [7] Located in western Oklahoma, approximately 87 mi (140 km) southwest of Oklahoma City, [8] [9] it is the principal city of the Lawton, Oklahoma, metropolitan statistical area.
Little is known of Buffalo Hump's early life: education in his youth and training as a warrior, together with his cousin Yellow Wolf (Isaviah, spelled also Sa-viah and sometimes misspelled as Sabaheit, alias Small Wolf), went on under their uncle Mukwooru's ("Spirit Talker") influence and their cursus honorum (i.e., rising through the ranks) was in its full development during the Mexican ...
Lotsee Patterson (née Smith; [1] b. 1931) is a Comanche librarian, educator, and founder of the American Indian Library Association. [2] She has written numerous articles on collection development, tribal libraries and Native American Librarianship. [3]