Comanche Culture

The Comanche are a very unique tribe. Their history and culture is a very interesting topic and cant even come close to being explained in just one five page report. Here I have written as much information about the Comanche warfare culture and how they lived their daily lives as I could. It talks about their early culture and how they came about.

After they entered the northern plains as part of the Eastern Shoshoni around 1500, the people who would become the Comanche lived along the upper reaches of the Platte River in southeastern Wyoming ranging between the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and the Black Hills. They got their first horses around 1680 and it changed dramatically within a few years. Groups of Comanche separated from the Shoshoni and began to move south in about 1700. After forming an alliance with the Ute, they occupied the central plains of eastern Colorado and western Kansas between the Platte and Arkansas Rivers and began to drive the Plains Apache from the area.

Mexico - troops in Calle de Revilladigego [i.e. Re...

Aqueduct City of Mexico

Mexico - Tlalpan cadets approaching palace (LOC)

Their first European contact is commonly believed to have been in New Mexico around 1700 when they visited a trade fair in Taos in the company of some Ute. Although this meeting is undocumented, the Comanche were definitely known to the Spanish in New Mexico by 1706.

Beginning in the 1740s they began crossing the Arkansas River and established themselves on margins of the Llano Estacado, which extended from western Oklahoma across the Texas Panhandle into New Mexico. The area they controlled became known as Comancheria and extended south from the Arkansas River across central Texas to the vicinity of San Antonio including the entire Edwards Plateau west to the Pecos River and then north again following the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the Arkansas.

Comanche herds...