che Indians along with the Spanish. The Comanche were such skilled warriors, that they were able to push the Indian groups further south and further west, they kept the Spanish in the southern part of Texas and prevented them from venturing north, and they also gave American settlers a very difficult time. The Comanche were very skilled horsemen. They were the most feared Indians on horses. It is actually said that the Comanche were the best Indian horsemen warriors ever. They had remarkable ability and skill on horses. The Comanche first met the Spanish around the late 1600s. The most prominent contribution from the Spanish was the horse. The horse helped strengthen the Comanche. The Spanish would not benefit too much from trading with the Comanche. Most of the trading done was usually for things or persons stolen by the Comanche, which the Spanish wanted back. Most of the time it was people. The Comanche would also encounter some American and German settlers in the late 1700s early 1800s. However, the Comanche didnt really trade with them, they would just steal horses, cattle, possessions and women and children, which they would sell back to the settlers of course. Traditionally the homeland of the Comanche was the northern part of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico. Currently most Comanche are found in Texas. This is a picture painted by an early explorer and artist named George Catlin. He painted this in 1834. Look at the women working on the buffalo skins. They are tanning and finishing them out to be buffalo skin robes. You could put these into a diorama of any Plains Indian tribe. See the tee-pees. They look like upside down cones. Look at the man going into the tee-pee at the front. Look real close at those little wood racks with the things hanging off them at the back right. Those are drying racks and the little strips of stuff hanging on them are buffalo meat drying to preserve it. The...
