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  2. Comanche - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Comanche history - Wikipedia

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    The Comanche were closely related in language and tradition to the Eastern Shoshone of Wyoming. The Comanche probably split from the Shoshone in the 16th century with the Comanche moving south to Colorado and becoming, as did the Eastern Shoshone, bison-hunting Great Plains nomads. The movement onto the Great Plains may have been stimulated by ...

  4. Comancheria - Wikipedia

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    Although powered by violence, the Comanche empire was primarily an economic construction, rooted in an extensive commercial network that facilitated long-distance trade. Dealing with subordinate Indians, the Comanche spread their language and culture across the region. By the early 1830s, the Comanche began to run out of resources in Comancheria.

  5. Captured by the Comanche in 1836, her long line of ... - AOL

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    Cynthia Ann was taken by and adopted into the Comanche tribe in 1836, when she was about 9. She married warrior Peta Nocona, with whom she had three children before she was recaptured in 1860 ...

  6. Native American cultures in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Native American cultures across the 574 current federally recognized tribes in the United States, can vary considerably by language, beliefs, customs, practices, laws, art forms, traditional clothing, and other facets of culture. Yet along with this diversity, there are certain elements which are encountered frequently and shared by many tribal ...

  7. Bianca Babb - Wikipedia

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    Bianca Babb (August 26, 1856 – April 13, 1950) was an American pioneer woman and former captive of the Comanche people. As a child, she was taken captive during a Comanche raid on her family's homestead in Wise County, Texas, in 1866. Babb spent seven months living among the Comanches before being ransomed and returned to her father in 1867.

  8. Eagle dance - Wikipedia

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    The eagle dance is a ritual dance practiced by some American Indians.It is used by the Pueblos to ask for rain, and Iroquois use it to ask for peace and cure. It originated from the calumet dance and is performed by two to four men with artificial wings on their arms, producing movements that imitate eagles.

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