How Did Comanche Develop

In the beginning, the Comanche Native Americans were primarily a hunter-gatherer nomadic society. Dating back to the early 1500's, the Comanche were originally part of the Eastern Shoshone who lived near the upper reaches of the Platte River in eastern Wyoming. Before the Comanches arrived, the Jumano, Pueblo, and Apache Indians had lived in the Southern Plains. The name Comanche comes from the word “kimantzi,” a Ute tribe word meaning enemy.

The language spoken by the Comanche people, Comanche, is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan language group. The earliest records of Comanche from 1786 clearly showed a dialect of Shoshone, but by the beginning of the 20th century, these sound changes had modified the way Comanche sounded in subtle, but profound, ways.

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

Comanche raids into Mexico traditionally took place during the full moon, when the Comanche could see to ride at night.

As a consequence, at the time when Comanche society was breaking down, the once respected and feared Penatʉka Nʉʉ provided U.S. Army Indian Scouts for the Americans and Texans against their still fighting and free-roaming Comanche kin. Some of the Lipan Apache and Mescalero Apache bands with some Comanche in their company held out in northern Mexico until the early 1880s, when Mexican and U.S. Army forces drove them onto reservations or into extinction.

The language spoken by the Comanche people, Comanche, is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan language group. The earliest records of Comanche from 1786 clearly show a dialect of Shoshone, but by the beginning of the 20th century, these sound changes had modified the way Comanche sounded in subtle, but profound, ways.