Essays Tagged: "Comanche"

Comanche Culture

The Comanche are a very unique tribe. Their history and culture is a very interesting topic and cant eve ... 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 ... ed 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 t ...

(7 pages) 141 0 4.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

History of Texas.

an-Apache were the furthest eastward and had the most contact with the early Texas settlements, the Comanche were in the north, and the Tonkawa lived in the region of central Texas. These tribes prote ...

(6 pages) 90 0 3.5 Aug/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Historical Evaluatino of "Dances With Wolves" by Michael Blake

n in third person, and has diary entries of lieutenant Dunbar in them. The story tells off buffalo, Comanche enemies, Comanche leisure, society, homes, religion, and clothing. In the novel, Dunbar mee ... e story buffalo plays an important role. In Dances With Wolves, author Michael Blake states, "They (comanches) also gnawed off pieces of the raw meat (the buffalo). They were eating it greedily, as if ...

(5 pages) 81 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

San Antonio de Bexar

he colonies in many different ways. In San Antonio de Bexar, the Indians that were present were the Comanches and the Apaches. The Apaches were the original inhabitants of the southern plains and live ... ther incidents were settlers of San Antonio de Bexar and other Indian tribes, including Apaches and Comanches, held raids and were constantly fighting. Because of this, there was military presence at ...

(8 pages) 17 0 0.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Classic Western Genre through the eyes of John Ford's "The Searchers".

begin to discover the searchers. The men (except for Wayne of course) live in constant fear of the Comanche, and being isolated in the desert. This feeling of fear and isolation is strengthened when ...

(2 pages) 32 0 4.8 Apr/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

"The Searchers" - Film Report

ed to his brother's farm in Texas. The action takes place in the year 1868.Soon after his arrival a Comanche raid kills his brother and sister-in-law, Martha and takes captive their two daughters: Luc ... Martin's response is "she's alive and she's gonna stay alive", but Ethan believes that "Living with Comanches ain't being alive". His obsession with Indians makes him a "psychologically-disturbed man ...

(4 pages) 22 0 4.0 May/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Superiority of the United States

killed, then again on June 1, 1873 the Modoc tribe was outnumbered and surrendered to the army. The Comanche and Kiowa war parties were attacked by soldiers September, 1874 with their village destroye ... lasted for over six hours. The next battle took place on June 27, 1874 with the Cheyenne, Kiowa and Comanche warriors at the battle of Adobe walls. The final resistance to white settlement in America ...

(8 pages) 27 1 0.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

searchers

other races for centuries.Ethan's hatred seems to be mainly reserved for one particular tribe, the Comanche. He is utterly ruthless and denies them of any honor. He senselessly slaughters their buffa ... eir buffalo herd simply to deprive them of food. He goes far to offer the ultimate insult to a dead Comanche, shooting out his eyes so that his spirit will be unable to find its way home, a Comanche b ...

(3 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis