Comanches
Southern Plains nation
Comanches is the plural of Comanche, a member of a Native American people who dominated the southern Great Plains from the 18th to 19th centuries.
Known as exceptional horsemen and warriors, the Comanche controlled a vast territory called the Comanchería, spanning parts of present-day Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado.
The word also refers to their Uto-Aztecan language: She is studying Comanche at the university.
Conical pole-and-hide shelter
- buffaloLarge North American bovine
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- spiritualityConnection to the sacred
- peyoteHallucinogenic desert succulent
powwow · language · traditions · kinship · sovereignty · treaties · clan · moccasin
Armed military engagement
- raidSudden armed incursion
- braveryBoldness before danger
- combatArmed hostile engagement
- archeryShooting with bows
tactics · tomahawk · chieftain · valor · ambush · guerrilla · fortitude · prowess
Broad, level grasslands
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
- grasslandTreeless herb-covered ecosystem
- TexasSecond-largest American state
- OklahomaSouth Central U.S. state
encampment · nomadic · migration · canyon · Pecos · range · homeland
teepee
Conical pole-and-hide shelter
- buffaloLarge North American bovine
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- spiritualityConnection to the sacred
peyote · powwow · language · traditions · kinship · sovereignty · treaties · clan · moccasin · travois
battle
Armed military engagement
archery · tactics · tomahawk · chieftain · valor · ambush · guerrilla · fortitude · prowess · shield
plains
Broad, level grasslands
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
- grasslandTreeless herb-covered ecosystem
- TexasSecond-largest American state
Oklahoma · encampment · nomadic · migration · canyon · Pecos · range · homeland
equestrian
Relating to horsemanship
raiding · breeding · herding · riding · bareback · horse-trading · stampede · wrangling
tradition
Custom passed through generations
customs · rituals · beliefs · identity · kinship · descendants · history · ceremonies · mythology · folklore
- raidersraiders, marauders, pillagers, plunderers, looters
- Nomadic PeoplesMongols, Scythians, Huns, Tatars, Bedouins
- Horse Archerycomposite bow, recurve bow, horse archery
ComanchesTexas Rangers
Texas state law enforcement
U.S. Cavalry · Apaches · Osage · frontier settlers · buffalo soldiers
- Comanche NationIndigenous nation of Southern Plains