Things You Need to Know About the Comanche Country Texas

The Numunu are mainly known to most of the world as the Comanche, the Lords of the Plains. So, their traditional homeland encompasses the Northern Plains areas of their Shoshone relatives, all the way south past the Rio Grande into present-day Mexico. They lived a life of following the buffalo upon horseback and mainly fought the U.S. Army, buffalo hunters and Texas Rangers basically in order to preserve that way of life.

No one ever walked behind a warrior or a medicine man.

Warrior or medicine man

So, the honoring of warriors and medicine people still continues to this day within the Comanche Nation. Organizations such as the Comanche Indian Veterans Association serve as co-hosts at powwows and serve as color guard not only for Comanche Texas celebrations but also at funerals of Comanche veterans and active military. Even, leaders within the Comanche Native American Church continue to pray for the Comanche people.

Comanche were communal people and were highly social. This continues today.

Comanche fair

Mainly two of the largest annual gatherings for the Comanche include Comanche Homecoming, held in July at Walters, Oklahoma, and Comanche Nation Fair, a week celebration usually held in September on the ground of the Comanche Nation Complex. So, in every four years, the Comanche Nation hosts the Shoshone Reunion.

Mainly in the summer, a seventeen-year locust was placed in the mouth of an infant or young child so they would grow up to be “fine singers!”

Music is central to Comanche life. So, they sing powwow songs from the Wild Band of Comanches, flute music from Cornel Pewewardy, hymns in the Comanche County language from Marla Nauni or hand game songs from Camp 7, music is at the core. Mainly at the Comanche Nation Fair, gospel and rock concerts also have a stage during the week.