Comanche Nation

Ancestral Homeland: Mexico to Wyoming

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 Texas, 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

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