The Comanche Tribe

The Comanche are a Native American ethnic group in the USA.

Today, the Comanche Nation has a member count of 14,105 members .

About half of whom live in Oklahoma (centered at Lawton). The remainder are concentrated in Texas, California, and New Mexico. The Comanche speak a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, sometimes identified as a Shoshone dialect.

The Comanche chose to be its own group in 1700, when they broke off from the Shoshone people Living close to the upper Platte River in Wyoming. This coincided with their acquisition of the horse, which allowed them greater mobility in their search for better hunting grounds.

Their original migration took them to the southern Great Plains, into a sweep of territory extending from the Arkansas River to central Texas. During that time, their population increased dramatically because of the abundance of buffalo, an influx of Shoshone migrants, and the adoption of significant numbers of women and children taken captive from rival groups.