Comanche Nation

Various Spellings: Comanche, Camanche

Brief Timeline
1600's: Left Wyoming, neighboring tribe, Shoshone and removed to south to Rocky Mountains.

1790: allied with Kiowa

1791: Liging in present day Kansas

1700-1800: raided and roamed Tesas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and northern Mexico

1835: Texas Revolution

1838: Council House Affair

1840: United with southern Cheyenne and Arapaho

1845: Annexation of Texas, Texas Rangers protect settlers from hostile Indians, particular the Camanche

1849-50: cholera epidemic

1853: Fort Atkinson Treaty - protect the Santa Fe Trail

1854: Comanche and Kiowa placed on reservation on the Brazos River.

1859: Barzos River reservations abandoned

1864: fought against Kit Carson's men; Battle of Adobe Walls on the Staked Plain for the Texas Panhandle

1866: Treaty of Medicine Lodge

1868: December 25: General Philip Henry Sheridans fought Comanche and Kiowa- Battle of Soldier Springs

1871- 1874: Chomanche and Kiowa wars

1874-75: Red River War or Buffalo War

Peyote Road- Native American Church- sacramental use of peyote - by 1930 half of the Indian population in the United States belonged ot the church.

1899: Oklahoma Territory ban the use of peyote.

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Comanche tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in John Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America.

Tribal Headquarters
Comanche Nation of Oklahoma 584 N. W. Bingo Rd. P. O. Box 908 Lawton, Oklahoma 73505 Toll Free Phone Number: 1.877.492.4988 Fax: 580.492.3796

Records
Agency Records

Correspondence and Census

Treaties


 * 1835 August 24, at Camp Holmes
 * 1846 May 15, at Council Springs
 * 1853 July 27, at Fort Atkinson
 * 1865 October 17, referred to in an Apache treaty
 * 1865 October 18, at Little Arkansas River

Vital Records


 * Kiowa Agency, M595, births and deaths 1924-1932, FHL Film: 576909 and births and deaths 1930-1936, FHL Film: 576911

Important Web Sites

 * Constitution and By-laws of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, approved: February 23, 2002
 * Comanche Nation Official Website
 * Comanche Nation Wikipedia