COMANCHE TRIBE
1895 Maps of Indian Nations

The Comanche were one of the southern tribes of the Shoshonean stock and the only one to live entirely on the Plains.� They are a comparatively recent offshoot of the Shoshoni of Wyoming and, until recently, kept in continual friendly communication with them.

For nearly 2 centuries they were at war with the Spaniards in Mexico and raided Mexican settlements as far south as Durango and Zacatecas.� Generally friendly to Americans, they were bitter enemies of the Texans, who had dispossessed them of their best hunting frounds, and they waged relentless was against them for almost 40 years.� Around 1795, they became close confederates of the Kiowa also allied themselves with the Apache.

Several treaties were consummated between the United States and the Comanche Tribe between 1834 and 1875.� In the treaty of Medicine Lodge in 1867, the Comanche, Apache, and Kiowa Tribes were assigned a tract of land in Oklahoma between the Washita and Red Rivers in southwestern Oklahoma, which they still share.