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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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    Comanche history for the eighteenth century falls into three broad and distinct categories: (1) the Comanche and their relationship with the Spanish, Puebloans, Ute, and Apache peoples of New Mexico; (2) The Comanche and their relationship with the Spanish, Apache, Wichita, and other peoples of Texas; and, (3) The Comanche and their relationship with the French and the Indian tribes of ...

  4. Comanche Wars - Wikipedia

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    With the total population of the Comanche tribe reduced to only around 3,000 in total, divisions began to appear within the tribe. About two-thirds of the remaining Comanche now resided on the reservation, often labeled the “tamed Comanche” or “broken Comanche”. About 1,000 Comanche however continuing to roam the plains.

  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. Comanchero - Wikipedia

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    The Comanches, a Shoshonean people, migrated from the North and arose as a separate and distinct tribe in the early 18th century, largely as a result of having obtained breeding stocks of horses after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. They migrated southward through the Rocky Mountains and into the Southern High Plains, where they and their Shoshonean ...

  7. Quanah Parker - Wikipedia

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    Quanah Parker (Comanche: Kwana, lit. ' smell, odor '; c. 1845 – February 23, 1911) was a war leader of the Kwahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche Nation.He was likely born into the Nokoni ("Wanderers") band of Tabby-nocca and grew up among the Kwahadis, the son of Kwahadi Comanche chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, an Anglo-American who had been abducted as an eight-year-old child ...

  8. New Fort Worth museum exhibit honors Cynthia Ann Parker’s ...

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    The exhibit will showcase Parker’s history and life with the Comanche tribe, including a bison robe that hasn’t been on display in Texas in over 50 years. In 1833, Parker and her family moved ...

  9. 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.