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Comancheria

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The Comancheria (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ, 'Comanche land') is the name commonly given to the region of New Mexico, west Texas and nearby areas occupied by the Comanche before the 1860s. [1]

55 relations: Apache, Apacheria, Arkansas River, Balcones Fault, Battle of Plum Creek, Caddo, Cherokee, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Cibolero, Cimarron River (Arkansas River tributary), Colorado, Comanche, Comanche history, Comanche language, Comanche–Mexico Wars, Comanchero, Cross Timbers, Eastern New Mexico, Edwards Plateau, Goliad, Texas, Great Raid of 1840, Hasinai, History of New Mexico, Kansas, Kiowa, Laredo, Texas, Lingua franca, Linnville, Calhoun County, Texas, Llano Estacado, Manuel Armijo, Mescalero Ridge, Mirabeau B. Lamar, Oklahoma Panhandle, Osage Nation, Pawnee people, Pecos River, Pekka Hämäläinen (historian), Plains Apache, Puebloans, Sam Houston, San Antonio, Santa Fe de Nuevo México, Shoshone, Tawakoni, Texas Hill Country, Texas Panhandle, Texas Revolution, Texas–Indian wars, Tonkawa, Ute people, ..., Victoria, Texas, Waco people, West Texas, Wichita Mountains, Wichita people. Expand index (5 more) »

Apache

The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Salinero, Plains and Western Apache.

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Apacheria

Apacheria was the term used to designate the region inhabited by the Apache people.

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Arkansas River

The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River.

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Balcones Fault

The Balcones Fault or Balcones Fault Zone is a tensional structural system Edwards Aquifer in the U.S. state of Texas that runs approximately from the southwest part of the state near Del Rio to the north central region near Dallas along Interstate 35.

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Battle of Plum Creek

The Battle of Plum Creek was a clash between allied Tonkawa, militia, and Rangers of the Republic of Texas and a huge Comanche war party under Chief Buffalo Hump, which took place near Lockhart, Texas, on August 12, 1840, following the Great Raid of 1840 as the Comanche war party returned to west Texas.

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Caddo

The Caddo Nation is a confederacy of several Southeastern Native American tribes.

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Cherokee

The Cherokee (translit or translit) are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands.

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Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes are a united, federally recognized tribe of Southern Arapaho and Southern Cheyenne people in western Oklahoma.

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Cibolero

A cibolero (plural: ciboleros) was a Spanish colonial (and later Mexican) buffalo hunter from New Mexico.

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Cimarron River (Arkansas River tributary)

The Cimarron River extends across New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Comanche

The Comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ) are a Native American nation from the Great Plains whose historic territory, known as Comancheria, consisted of present-day eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, western Oklahoma, and most of northwest Texas and northern Chihuahua.

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Comanche history

Forming a part of the Eastern Shoshone linguistic group in southeastern Wyoming who moved on to the buffalo Plains around AD 1500 (based on glottochronological estimations), proto-Comanche groups split off and moved south some time before AD 1700.

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Comanche language

Comanche is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Comanche people, who split off from the Shoshone soon after they acquired horses around 1705.

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Comanche–Mexico Wars

The Comanche–Mexico Wars was the Mexican theater of the Comanche Wars, a series of conflicts from 1821 to 1870s which consisted of large-scale raids into northern Mexico by Comanches and their Kiowa allies which left thousands of people dead.

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Comanchero

The Comancheros were traders based in northern and central New Mexico who made their living by trading with the nomadic Great Plains Indian tribes, in northeastern New Mexico, West Texas, and other parts of the southern plains of North America.

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Cross Timbers

The term Cross Timbers, also known as Ecoregion 29, Central Oklahoma/Texas Plains, is used to describe a strip of land in the United States that runs from southeastern Kansas across Central Oklahoma to Central Texas.

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Eastern New Mexico

Eastern New Mexico is a physiographic subregion within the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Edwards Plateau

The Edwards Plateau is a region of west-central Texas which is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the south and east, the Llano Uplift and the Llano Estacado to the north, and the Pecos River and Chihuahuan Desert to the west.

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Goliad, Texas

Goliad is a city in Goliad County, Texas, United States.

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Great Raid of 1840

The Great Raid of 1840 was the largest raid ever mounted by Native Americans on white cities in what is now the United States.

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Hasinai

The Hasinai Confederacy (Caddo: Hasíinay) was a large confederation of Caddo-speaking Native Americans located between the Sabine and Trinity rivers in eastern Texas.

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History of New Mexico

The history of New Mexico is based on both archeological evidence, attesting to varying cultures of humans occupying the area of New Mexico since approximately 9200 BC, and written records.

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Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

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Kiowa

Kiowa people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains.

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Laredo, Texas

Laredo is the county seat of Webb County, Texas, United States, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca, also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vernacular language, or link language is a language or dialect systematically used to make communication possible between people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both native languages.

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Linnville, Calhoun County, Texas

Linnville, Texas was a town in the Republic of Texas, in what is now Calhoun County.

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Llano Estacado

Llano Estacado, often translated as Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas.

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Manuel Armijo

Manuel Armijo (ca. 1793–1853) was a New Mexican soldier and statesman who served three times as governor of New Mexico.

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Mescalero Ridge

The Mescalero Ridge forms the western edge of the great Llano Estacado, a vast plateau or tableland in the southwestern United States in New Mexico and Texas.

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Mirabeau B. Lamar

Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 19, 1859), an attorney born in Georgia, became a Texas politician, poet, diplomat and soldier.

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Oklahoma Panhandle

The Oklahoma Panhandle is the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, consisting of Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County, from west to east.

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Osage Nation

The Osage Nation (Osage: Ni-u-kon-ska, "People of the Middle Waters") is a Midwestern Native American tribe of the Great Plains who historically dominated much of present-day Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

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Pawnee people

The Pawnee are a Plains Indian tribe who are headquartered in Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Pecos River

The Pecos River is a river that originates in eastern New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande.

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Pekka Hämäläinen (historian)

Pekka Kalevi Hämäläinen (born 1967, Helsinki) is a Finnish professor, currently a Rhodes Professor at the University of Oxford, formerly in the History Department at University of California at Santa Barbara, and author of a multiple prize-winning book, The Comanche Empire.

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Plains Apache

The Plains Apache are a small Southern Athabaskan group who traditionally live on the Southern Plains of North America, in close association with the linguistically unrelated Kiowa nation, and today are centered in Southwestern Oklahoma.

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Puebloans

The Puebloans or Pueblo peoples are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material and religious practices.

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Sam Houston

Sam Houston (March 2, 1793July 26, 1863) was an American soldier and politician.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States.

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Santa Fe de Nuevo México

Santa Fe de Nuevo México (Santa Fe of New Mexico; shortened as Nuevo México or Nuevo Méjico, and translated as New Mexico) was a province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and later a territory of independent Mexico.

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Shoshone

The Shoshone or Shoshoni are a Native American tribe with four large cultural/linguistic divisions.

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Tawakoni

The Tawakoni (already known as Tahuacano in the first times of their contacts with white people) are a Native American tribe closely related to the Wichitas and who spoke a Wichita dialect of the Caddoan language family.

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Texas Hill Country

The Texas Hill Country is a geographic region located in the Edwards Plateau at the crossroads of West Texas, Central Texas, and South Texas.

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Texas Panhandle

The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state.

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Texas Revolution

The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Texas Mexicans) in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico.

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Texas–Indian wars

The Texas–Indian wars were a series of 19th-century conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians.

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Tonkawa

The Tonkawa are a Native American tribe indigenous to present-day Oklahoma and Texas.

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Ute people

Ute people are Native Americans of the Ute tribe and culture and are among the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People.

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Victoria, Texas

Victoria is the largest city and county seat of Victoria County, Texas.

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Waco people

The Waco (also spelled Huaco and Hueco) of the Wichita people is a Midwestern Native American tribe that inhabited northeastern Texas.

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West Texas

West Texas is a loosely defined part of the U.S. state of Texas, generally encompassing the arid and semiarid lands west of a line drawn between the cities of Wichita Falls, Abilene, and Del Rio.

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Wichita Mountains

The Wichita Mountains are located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Wichita people

The Wichita people are a confederation of Midwestern Native Americans.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comancheria

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