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Comanche and Little
* Chief Little Raven ( c. 1810 – 1889 ), negotiated peace between the Southern Arapaho and Cheyenne and the Comanche, Kiowa, and Plains Apache.
The years 1856 – 1858 were particularly vicious and bloody on the Texas frontier, as settlers continued to expand their settlements into the Comanche homeland, the Comancheria, and 1858 was marked by the first Texan incursion into the heart of the Comancheria, the so-called Antelope Hills Expedition, marked by the Battle of Little Robe Creek.
In 1840 at the Battle of Plum Creek and again in 1858 at the Battle of Little Robe Creek, the Tonkawa fought alongside the Texas Rangers against the Comanche.
In August, war chief Little Buffalo Hump and 500 Comanche Indians attacked Victoria, Texas, and other nearby towns, stealing horses and livestock and killing dozens of white settlers.

Comanche and host
During the 17th and 18th centuries, Barton Creek was believed to host Tonkawa and Comanche Indian camps.
On arrival, the Comanche leader Quanah Parker and a host of other Indians and Whites turned out to welcome the buffalo.

Comanche and two
The county contains the Comanche Peak Nuclear Generating Station, one of two nuclear power plants in Texas.
For the two hundred years leading up to 1875, nomadic Indian tribes representing the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, and others roamed the Panhandle following the huge buffalo herds.
The Comanche County-City Airport is located two nautical miles ( 2. 3 mi, 3. 7 km ) northeast of the City of Comanche's central business district.
In 1870, during the Comanche Campaign against hostile Native Americans, the Army built two redoubts along the Dodge / Supply trail near the current site of Ashland: the Bear Creek Redoubt, five miles to the north, and the Cimarron Redoubt, nine miles to the south.
In 1960 the line of Piper aircraft consisted of an agricultural-and two passenger variants of the Super Cub ; the Caribbean, Colt and Tri-Pacer ; two versions of the PA-24 Comanche ; the Pawnee ; and the Apache and its new larger derivative the Aztec.
The racial makeup of the city was 70. 8 % White, 2. 5 % African American, 18. 6 % Native American ( 13. 45 % Comanche ), 0. 4 % Asian, 0. 3 % Pacific Islander, 0. 09 % from other races, and 6. 5 % from two or more races.
The Comanche County-City Airport is located two nautical miles ( 2. 3 mi, 3. 7 km ) northeast of Comanche's central business district.
It spawned four follow-up miniseries, Return to Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk, and Comanche Moon, and two television series, Lonesome Dove: The Series and Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years.
These bands were led by a chief, the Topadok ' i. The Kiowa had two political subdivisions ( particularly with regard to their relationship with the Comanche ):
On June 2, 2000, an investigation was launched in the DynCorp hangar at Comanche Base Camp, one of two U. S. bases in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and all DynCorp personnel were detained for questioning.
Rachel Plummer, the 17 year old wife of Luther Plummer, daughter of James Parker, and cousin to Cynthia Parker and her brother John, was held captive by the Comanche for two years before being ransomed by her father.
The Colorado War ( 1863 – 1865 ) was an armed conflict between the United States and a loose alliance among the Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho, and Cheyenne tribes of Native Americans ( the last two were particularly closely allied ).
A Comanche tribe came to his aid when he fell off of his horse by the Colorado River, and he lived with them for two years until he made a full recovery.
The enterprise required two types of steamers the Grampus and Comanche.
* Werewolf vs Comanche 2. 0 ( 1995 )-a pack of two games with a compatible multiplayer mode
They covered his flanks and each morning two of them rode far ahead of the slow-moving column to search for Comanche and Kiowa encampments.
As the Kiowa village consisted of 176 lodges and the Comanche village of about 500 lodges, it is unlikely that the total Indian force numbered more that two fighting men per lodge or 1, 300.
The Medicine Lodge Treaty, signed near present day Medicine Lodge, KS in 1867, called for two reservations to be set aside in Indian Territory, one for the Comanche and Kiowa and one for the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho.
The two young Rangers are introduced quickly and brutally to the rangering life on their first expedition, in which they are stalked by the Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump.
Background vehicles included a Volkswagen Beetle, Volkswagen Variant, Mazda MX5, Jeep Comanche, Volkswagen Transporter, Yellow School Bus, Citroën 2CV, Jeep YJ, Toyota Landcruiser, Audi 100 Quattro, two Unimogs, BMW 520i, Mercedes-Benz SL 500, and Volvo 850 R station wagon. You could also drive various parts of the scenery including a large green T-rex, a little wooden kiosk and a western style wagon.
The game modeled 4 aircraft ; two attack helicopters, the Light Helicopter Experimental, LHX, based on the McDonnell Douglas-Bell LHX concept similar to the Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche, and a Boeing AH-64A Apache, and two cargo helicopters, a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and a Boeing V-22 Osprey.
Renegade was re-released in at least two EA Classics boxes ( one including Comanche 4 as a bonus, and the other including Freedom Force ) sometime after its initial release and was included in two Command & Conquer compilations: The Command & Conquer Collection, and Command & Conquer Collected.

Comanche and annual
In July Comanches from across the United States gather to celebrate their heritage and culture in Walters, Oklahoma at the annual Comanche Homecoming powwow.

Comanche and
The northernmost Comanche band were the Yamparikas ( Yaparʉhka or Yapai Nʉʉ ‘( Yap ) Root-Eaters ’), which was the last band to move onto the Plains and retained much of their Shoshone tradition.
* Saria Tʉhka ( Chariticas, Sata Teichas ‘ Dog-Eaters ’, once a group of Arapaho, who joined the Comanche )
* Pahʉraix (‘ Water Horse ’, also called Parkeenaʉm or Paki Nʉmʉ ‘ Water People ’, because they preferred settling along lakes, known to the Comanche as the best runners and players of Lacrosse )
* Pohoi ( Pohoee ‘ Wild Sage ’, once a group of Wind River Shoshone who joined the Comanche )
" The seven Apachean tribes had no political unity ( despite such portrayals in common perception ) and often were enemies of each other for example, the Lipan fought against the Mescalero just as they did against the Comanche.
* Comanche Nation A Numic-speaking tribe that lived on the High Plains of southeastern Colorado.
* Comanche Stallion ( 2005 ).
* Buffalo Hump Comanche war-chief
* Kicking Wolf Comanche horse thief
Before the Comanche expanded out of present day Wyoming in the early eighteenth century, the lands now known as Comacheria was home to a multitude of tribes most notably the Apaches.
And while with Sully's expedition later that year, Keogh was fighting Indians almost every day indeed, it was in one such fight that his new mount, Comanche, received his first wound and, as the story goes, his name.

Comanche and one
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Comanche lifestyle required about one horse per person.
At one point, Sam Houston, president of the newly created Republic of Texas, almost succeeded in reaching a peace treaty with the Comanche.
On May 29, 1908, the United States Congress authorized the United States Secretary of the Interior to allot Lehmann, as an adopted member of the Comanche nation, one hundred and sixty acres of Oklahoma land, near Grandfield.
The Broad Street Bridge, a reinforced concrete truss and the only one of its kind in Texas, was built across the Comanche Creek in 1918.
* Jupe, one of the subdivisions of the Comanche tribe
When many Comanche tried to flee the area, Ross, one of his scouts, Lieutenant Cornelius Van Camp of the 2nd Cavalry and one of his troopers chased a party of noncombatants that appeared to contain a white child.
Luckenbach was first established as a community trading post and was one of the few that never broke a peace treaty with the Comanche Indians, with whom they traded.
* Nokoni, one of the Comanche bands
Colcord's father joined about fourteen of his neighbors to form the Comanche Pool, one of the first corporate ranches in the southwest.
More than one thousand Comanche, Kiowa and Plains Apache attacked him.
As it was, Carson lost six dead and twenty-five wounded, including one Indian scout killed and four wounded, while he estimated that the Comanche and Kiowa lost approximately fifty to sixty killed and as many as 100 wounded.
Only one Comanche scalp was reported taken by Carson's soldiers.
After one more stay in America ( where, according to himself, he was adopted into a Comanche tribe ), Aimard returned to Paris in 1847 -– the same year his half-sister, Duchess de Choiseul-Pralin, was brutally murdered by her noble husband.
Over the next one hundred years, horses in the Americas were stolen and traded by the Apache, Comanche, and later the Utes and Shoshoni to various tribes across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.
Apart from Comanche, each of these groups contains one language spoken in a small area in the southern Sierra Nevada and valleys to the east ( Mono, Timbisha, and Kawaiisu ), and one language spoken in a much larger area extending to the north and east ( Northern Paiute, Shoshone, and Ute-Southern Paiute ).
The expedition, led by pirate and soldier of fortune, Caleb Cobb, is ultimately a failure ; of the 200 initial adventurers, only about 40 survive, falling to starvation, bears, and Indians ( in one memorable chapter, the Comanche ignite the grasses surrounding the ranger camp, forcing rangers to jump over the edge of a canyon to escape the flames ), only to be swiftly arrested by the Mexican authorities.

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