Darryl Tonemah is an American Indian health psychologist and musician, of Kiowa, Comanche and Tuscarora heritage.
This was due to his background – his former wife LaDonna Harris is of Native American Comanche ancestry, and had been deeply involved in Native American activism in her own right.
Muk-Wah-Ruh (Death March 19, 1840) was a 19th-century Comanche Chief in Central Texas.
Sonny Nevaquaya is a Comanche flute player and maker from Oklahoma.
The protagonist, rancher Steve Adams, became the Comanche Indian, the Straight Arrow, when bad people or other dangers threatened.
Comanche, a Native American ethnic group whose range consisted of present-day eastern New Mexico
Tom Mauchahty-Ware is a Kiowa-Comanche musician.
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His 2007 novel De overgave, to be translated as Someone Found, takes the subject of the 19th-century Texas Indian wars, dramatizing the story of the Fort Parker Massacre of 1836, in which a white girl, Cynthia Ann Parker, was taken as a Comanche hostage, later becoming the mother of the famous Comanche chief Quanah Parker.
The site was long a favorite of the Comanche, providing both cover from the fierce blue northers that hit the plains, and ample forage for their ponies, with easy buffalo hunting from the nearby herds.
Blackbear Bosin (June 5, 1921–August 9, 1980) was a Comanche-Kiowa sculptor and painter, also known as Tsate Kongia.
Author Fred Brooks criticized the need for the Comanche to ferry itself across the Atlantic as an example of excess requirements in a project's design phase and their repercussions.
In the 1956 film "The Searchers", starring John Wayne, there are several badly pronounced Comanche words interspersed, such as "Nawyecka" (nooyʉka 'move camp around') and "timoway" (tʉmʉʉ 'buy, trade').
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In a 2013 Boston Globe article, linguist Todd McDaniels of Comanche Nation College commented on Johnny Depp's attempts to speak the Comanche language in the film "The Lone Ranger", saying “The words were there, the pronunciation was shaky but adequate.
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A group of seventeen young men referred to as the Comanche Code Talkers were trained and used by the U.S. Army to send messages conveying sensitive information in the Comanche language so that it could not be deciphered by the enemy.
Comanche was the first commercial flight simulation based on voxel technology via the company's proprietary Voxel Space engine (written entirely in Assembly language).
The route ran from the Comanche summer hunting grounds to the Rio Grande, where the Spanish had established a line of missions and presidios during the eighteenth century in what was then called New Spain, which the Comanche would raid.
In preceding years, the Towakoni and Waco tribes, allied with various Comanche bands, had regularly raided Texas settlements.
George "Comanche Boy" Tahdooahnippah (born December 3, 1978) is an American professional boxer in the Super Middleweight division and is the current World Boxing Council (WBC) Continental America's middleweight and Native American Boxing Council Super Middleweight Champion.
Fearing a Comanche reprisal, the other tribes fled to safety at Fort Arbuckle.
Other nearby stations that provide coverage for the Gustine and Comanche County area include: KCEN-TV, KWTX-TV, and KAKW-DT from the Waco/Temple/Killeen DMA.
Comanche medicine man Isa-tai prophesized a victory and immunity to the white man’s bullets in battle.
A great-great grandmother, Martha Sherman, was murdered in 1860 near the Parker-Palo Pinto County line, west of Weatherford, by a band of Comanche Indians led by Chief Peta Nocona.
He is a direct relative of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, and as such is a member of the Comanche Nation.
In 1871, a ten-wagon mule train moving through Texas was attacked by some 100 Kiowa and Comanche warriors under the direction of Satanta, Satank, and Maman-ti.
After reading interviews of the filming of the 2012 movie Lone Ranger, and that Johnny Depp's reprisal of the role of 'Tonto' will be as a Comanche, Ms. Harris thought it would be fun to adopt Depp into the Comanche Tribe.
LHX Attack Chopper, a 1990 computer game that includes a simulation of a Light Helicopter Experimental helicopter similar to the RAH-66 Comanche
The range of this species extends from southern Oregon and Wyoming in the north, and extends south to roughly the U.S.-Mexico border, with a disjunct population designated as Peromyscus truei comanche which occupies an area in the vicinity of Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle.
Country music singers Patsy Cline, "Cowboy" Lloyd Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins were on board a Comanche owned and piloted by Cline's manager, Randy Hughes, when it crashed in deteriorating weather near Camden, Tennessee on March 5, 1963, killing all on board.
The Twin Comanche was developed from the single-engined Comanche by Ed Swearingen who at the time operated a facility that specialized in the modification of production aircraft.
In 1964, before the Comanche Reservoir was filled, the graves in the cemetery of Poverty Bar were transferred to the old Pioneer Cemetery and the People's Cemetery in San Andreas.
About 2,000 Comanche and Wichita warriors attacked and destroyed the mission March 16, 1758, but did not attack the presidio.
Cyprinodon elegans, Comanche Springs pupfish, endangered, limited to spring-fed pools and wetlands around Balmorhea, Texas in Trans-Pecos west Texas.
The Red Hills is the name of a physiographic region located mostly in Clark, Comanche and Barber counties in southern and central Kansas.
Under command of Potsanaquahip (Buffalo Hump), 500 to 700 Comanche cavalry warriors swept down the Guadalupe River valley, killing and plundering all the way to the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, where they sacked the towns of Victoria and Linnville.
The Penateka Comanches were located on the Comanche Indian Reservation located on the Clear Fork Brazos River, about ten miles southwest of what is now Throckmorton in Throckmorton County.
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He received a federal appointment as special Indian agent, on March 20, 1847, and took part in the treaty between the Comanche and the German colonists on the San Saba River in March 1847, which resulted in the so-called Meusebach-Comanche Treaty.
As a pioneer Texas geologist, Hill discovered and named the Comanche Series of the Lower Cretaceous, and was a lifelong student of the structure and stratigraphy of the Cretaceous deposits of Central Texas and neighboring regions.
In the Eastern United States, the fighting dragged on for three more years, but in the Southwest the war against the Confederacy was over, but the war against the Apache, Navaho and Comanche continued for the California garrisons until they were replaced by U. S. Army troops after the Civil War ended.
Six famous Native American Chiefs, Geronimo (Apache), Quanah Parker (Comanche), Buckskin Charlie (Ute), American Horse (Oglala Lakota), Hollow Horn Bear (Sicangu Lakota) and Little Plume (Blackfeet), met in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to rehearse the parade with the Carlisle Cadets and Band.
During his tenure in the land office, he opened the Apache, Comanche, and Wichita Indian Reservations in Oklahoma to settlement.