![]() Although infamous for their unrelenting warfare and raiding into Mexico, they also took thousands of captives from raids on other Native tribes as well as Anglo settlers on the American frontier. The Comanche bands regularly waged war on neighboring tribes and European settlers encroaching on Comancheria. Estimates of the Comanche's total population in 1780, when they were most numerous, are usually around 20,000, although one estimate numbers them at 40,000. They consisted of several bands with a common language which operated independently of each other. Their extensive area of suzerainty has been called an empire, but the Comanche were never united under a single government or leader. They subsisted on the bison herds of the Plains which they hunted for food and skins. Adroit diplomacy was also a factor in maintaining their dominance and fending off enemies for more than a century. Comanche power and their substantial wealth depended on horses, trading, and raiding. The Comanche are often characterized as "Lords of the Plains." They presided over a large area called Comancheria which they shared with allied tribes, the Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache (Plains Apache), Wichita, and after 1840 the southern Cheyenne and Arapaho. ComancheriaĬomanche history / k ə ˈ m æ n tʃ i/ In the 18th and 19th centuries the Comanche became the dominant tribe on the southern Great Plains. program in FAU’s Dorothy F.History of Native American tribe A Comanche warrior in 1835. The program is a collaborative initiative of the National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage that supports interdisciplinary research, documentation, and language/cultural revitalization for Indigenous communities.įor more information about the Ph.D. ![]() The Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices program is supporting Briner with a grant for her research. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at FAU. Briner, an advanced second-language learner, has been working with first-language Comanche speakers over the last several years and has been awarded grants for her language work from the American Philosophical Society, the Endangered Language Fund’s Native Voices Endowment, and the Dorothy F. Most of the few Comanche who can speak the language are elderly and currently there is no complete online resource for the language. ![]() This work was part of Briner’s doctorate which focuses on creating the first online multimedia Comanche dictionary and learning tool. They looked at records dating back to the 1840s in order to trace the way the Comanche language has changed and grown. The team, which included six Comanche Nation employees and FAU professors Michael Hamilton, Ph.D., and Viktor Kharlamov, Ph.D., gathered archival materials in order to fill in lexical gaps in Comanche vocabulary, grammatical content, and to increase phonological understanding. in August as part of the Smithsonian’s “Recovering Voices Community Research Program.” Briner led an eight-person team to work with written and recorded Comanche materials in the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives. (Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache descent), spent a week at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. student Kathryn Pewenofkit Briner, D.M.A.
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