The Comanche Tribe

The development of the Comanche Indian identity is very unique. These people developed without overseas trade, settlement, and modern amenities for the time. Yet, those Native Americans were able to stand up against the developing Anglo Population that was immigrating to their land. The Anglo Population developed differently compared to the Comanche tribes. Even though the Comanche and Anglo people both developed vastly differently, they both had alike developments.

The Comanches, exceptional horsemen who dominated the Southern Plains, played a prominent role in Texas frontier history throughout much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Anthropological evidence indicates that they were originally a mountain tribe, a branch of the Northern Shoshones, who roamed the Great Basin region of the western United States as crudely equipped hunters and gatherers. Both cultural and linguistic similarities confirm the Comanches' Shoshone origins. The Comanche language is derived from the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family and is virtually identical to the language of the Northern Shoshones. Sometime during the late seventeenth century, the Comanches acquired horses, and that acquisition

Warfare played a crucial role in the lives of the Comanche. The Comanche went to war for various reasons, including to gain stolen items, such as horses, goods, and even people that they kidnapped and held captive. In

The Sand Creek Massacre involved many native tribes, including the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Sioux, Kiowa, and Comanche. Among many of these tribes were the targeted, Black Kettle and White Antelope leaders of the Cheyenne. Left Hand and Little Raven were the Arapaho chiefs. “The Cheyenne and the Arapaho were the tribes that were mainly affected in this massacre.” (Hoig 15)

Have you ever heard of the Cherokee Indians? Sure you have! Just as a reminder, they are the biggest tribe, and most known of out of all the Indian tribes there has ever been in the southeast. They are very important to American History and helped shaped us to be the Americans we are today, which is clearly what I 'll be explaining in this paper. Throughout the paper, I 'll tell you everything you need to know about the Cherokee Indians and continue to relate to the thesis.

Mexican ranchers known as Tejanos fought to keep their land after the Mexican American War. Some examples of Mexicans farmers in the towns of Camargo and Reynosa owned about thirty-six thousand head of cattle, horses and sheep. Trade between those towns along the Nueces River and the countryside was very successful. Across the towns of Brownsville, McAllen and Edinburg after Texas became a state, Anglo merchants marry prominent Mexican land-grant families to gain control of acres of land. Subsequently, to make a contribution to the trade between

I picked the Chinook tribe, which is a northwestern tribe located around the columbian river, or today's Washington and Oregon. The land and climate really defined how the Chinook people lived and is why it’s defined as a folk culture. The Chinook tribe is around large forests that the tribe uses to build canoes and large houses. The Chinook tribe would build these large houses and many people could live inside, these houses were made out of red cedar a tree that was very abundant in the area. The Climate where the Chinook tribe located was very harsh but easy at times. The climate existed of very rainy seasons with very hot seasons that defined what the Chinook tribe would wear. The Chinook tribe would wear little to nothing on the hot

Nebraska was home to many Native Americans, including the Ponca tribe, who took great pride of their homeland. Many people think the Ponca tribe was once a part of the Omaha, Osage, Kansa, and Quaqaw tribe. These five tribes lived in an area east of the Mississippi River. No one knows the exact date of their separation or why they had separated, but it was believed to be as early at 1390, and as late as 1750.

The Cahuilla were a Native Southern Californian tribe that occupied the Riverside County, Higher Palomar Mountain Region and East Colorado Desert. The tribe was divided into two groups or moieties know as Wildcats or Coyotes. The Cahuilla lived in small clans that varied in population, and together all the separate clans made up a larger political group called a sib ”http://www.aguacaliente.org/content/History%20&%20Culture/.” The tribe was at first considered to be very simple and savage because they were never interacted with. As the Europeans and Spanish Missionaries considered the desert an inhospitable place that was better to avoid because

The Comanche tribe and Prophetstown represent drastically different stories of the roles of Native Americans in American Expansion. The Comanche were a conglomerate of multiple tribes that shared an economy based on horses and buffalo hunting. They acted as a controlling force, limiting European and American power in the Southwest. Prophetstown was a single unified tribe formed by shared religious belief in the Prophet, Tenskwatawa. In the Midwest, Native tribes signed treaties to sell the United States land that they either had weak claims to or had little interest in selling due to blackmail and deception. One reason for the formation of the city at Prophetstown was that natives saw their impending loss of their homes and sought to band together

Buenger’s article, “Unionism on the Texas Frontier: 1859-1861.” Buenger continues the discusses on the Texas frontier, its economics and politics of the frontiersman. He establishes the same reasoning for the frontiersman relying on the federal government for the purchase of surplus goods (wheat) while the Army protecting them from Indian and Mexican raids. Buenger adds in order for the Army to protect the frontier, they established forts throughout the region. The addition of forts enabled settlers to establish small economic communities around the forts. Frontiersman “sold their livestock, their crops, and their services to the army. They built and maintain the forts, helped feed troops, and provided grain for animals.” Buenger asserts the federal government failed to provided enough troop to adequately protect the frontier from Indian raids. The burden of defending the frontier “fell on the state government and on state-organized Ranger Battalions.” In-turn Governors Runnels and Houston insisted the federal government “pay for Texas troops to do the job the army should have done.” The insistence of payment became an political issue when Republicans in the House of Representatives blocked the Democratic pushed for appropriations for frontier

We're going to tell you about a tribe of Indians known as the Sioux Indians. The Sioux Indians lived on the great plains. The Sioux's tribe is partially and fully located in 7 states. The states are known as Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Their natural resources include deer, beans, wild rice, and buffalo.

In 1540, a Spanish Conquistador ( Conqueror in English) named Francisco Vasquez de Coronado led a journey to the Southwest. Coronado was born in Salamanca, Spain in 1510. His army had included Europeans and enslaved Africans. He was looking for the riches of the Seven Cities of Cibola, he was following the footsteps of a man by the name of, Estevanico. Estevanico was also looking for the Seven Cities of Cibola, Estevanico was a scout for Marcos de Niza. It was rumored that it was filled with gold and silver. Sadly, Coronado never found the riches or the cities, all that he found was the Native Americans which had included, the Utes and Comanches. They had looked intimidating to the Native Americans with his army. He had the better weapons and armor. The intimidation made the tribes react and defend, using bows, arrows, and spears. Eventually, the Spanish had decided that they would have to leave. He had ended his search at the Wichita’s Village. He left with discouragement to his home, Nueva Galicia. It was a place where Native Americans rebelled against harsh Spanish rule. Coronado lost his position as governor and retired in Mexico City, and died in 1554.

In the book Empire of the Summer moon By: S.C. Gwynne writes in the epic saga about a pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker, who was kidnapped by Comanches, as a nine-year-old girl. Cynthia Ann Parker has mixed-blood son Quanah Parker, who later become the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. From the book Empire of the Summer Moon it was stated "that the war with the Comanches lasted four decades and in the effect, there was a holding up the development of the New American nation, the argument that is being claimed is that there were a rise and fall of the Comanches." S.C. Gwynne ."The rise of Quanah," in Empire of the Summer Moon

The Cheyenne Indians were a tribe located in the plains and were very dependent on family and hunting. Cheyenne came from the Sioux, “Shai-ena” which meant “Strange speech people”. Europeans claim in 1600 when they first arrived that Cheyenne Indians were in the Woodlands of the Wisconsin River, but for the sake of this tribal outline the information of provided will be covered over cheyenne in the Oklahoma Region and their migration. My resources are The Cheyenne and Arapaho Ordeal written by Donald J. Berthrong that covers the migration of both tribes and how they were treated. My second resource is Cheyenne Dog Soldiers by 3 credible Authors: Afton, Halaas, Masich.