Comanche Nation

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

1790: allied with Kowa

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 Kowa 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.

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

Vital Records


 * Kiowa Agency, M595, births and deaths1924-1932, 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