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Isabella Schuessler

The Comanche

Indians of the North America

Houses

  • The Comanche's style of housing were tipis.
  • They were a very nomadic tribe, wherever the buffalo went they followed.
  • The tipi was easy to set up, and easy to take down, which made it easier for the Comanche to hunt and travel.

Family Life

Hunting:

  • The horse was a very useful tool to the Comanche for hunting.
  • "The horse transformed them from nomadic foot hunters to healthy and prosperous people."
  • It helped them travel farther to find more buffalo, and they could carry the game farther and save more of it as well.
  • They also were able to provide themselves with enough food, shelter, clothing, and whatever else they needed to get by with.

School:

  • The men were taught to hunt.
  • Women were taught to sew.
  • Everyone was taught on how to steal horses.


Special Days/Traditions

  • The sun dance was a very important day in Comanche religion.
  • The Comanche had many death rituals for the dying people in their tribe.
  • The Powwow tradition was where there was feasting, singing, and dancing to celebrate life and existence.

Clothing

  • The women of the tribe made the clothes.
  • Clothing was made from, deer, and buffalo.
  • Clothing was decorated with paint, porcupine quills or beadwork.
  • Both wen and women wore earrings, and necklaces.
  • "Comanche warriors wore beaded, feathered war bonnets decorated with eagle feathers, and beadwork as a symbol of courage and accomplishment"
  • "Traditional headdresses were caps with straight-up eagle feathers and ermine tails trailing behind them"
  • Men wore their hair in two long braids.
  • Young boys did not wear any clothes unless the weather was extremely cold.
  • On the other hand, as soon as young girls learned how to walked they were dressed.

https://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/indian-tribes/comanche-tribe.htm

Leisure Days

  • The children had dolls, toys, and games to play.
  • They liked to go fishing and hunting.
  • Boys and girls as young as five learned how to ride horses after the tribe acquired them.
  • There is a picture of a hoop game played by Comanche children down below.

http://www.nativetech.org/games/hoop&pole.html

Tribe Today

  • Today there are 15,191 people of the Comanche nation alive.
  • Located near Lawton, Oklahoma.
  • They share their reservation boundaries with the Kiowa and Apache.
  • The global contribution is serving as code talkers in World War II.
  • They served as code talkers in the allied invasion of Normady against the Nazis.


Quiz

What was the the reason the Powwow festival was  celebrated

BIBLIOGRAPHY


“10 Things You Need to Know About the Comanche Nation.” Indian Country Media Network, 30 May 2017, indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/native-news/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-comanche-nation/.


“Comanche Tribe.” Comanche Tribe: Facts, Clothes, Food and History ***, www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/indian-tribes/comanche-tribe.htm.


Comanche book in Regina Library.


“Tribal Traditions.” Quanah Parker, whyismylifesodifficult.weebly.com/tribal-traditions.html.


http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/north-american-indigenous-peoples/comanche


http://www.nativetech.org/games/hoop&pole.html


http://www.easybib.com/cite/view