A report on Comanche and Llano Estacado
In the early 18th century, the Comanches expanded their territory into the Llano Estacado, displacing the Apaches who had previously lived there.
- Llano EstacadoThe "Western Comanche" lived in the region of the upper Arkansas, Canadian, and Red Rivers, and the Llano Estacado.
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Texas
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State in the South Central region of the United States.
Native American tribes who lived inside the boundaries of present-day Texas include the Alabama, Apache, Atakapan, Bidai, Caddo, Aranama, Comanche, Choctaw, Coushatta, Hasinai, Jumano, Karankawa, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, and Wichita.
The Great Plains region in Central Texas spans through the state's panhandle and Llano Estacado to the state's hill country near Lago Vista and Austin.
Great Plains
1 linksBroad expanse of flatland in North America.
Broad expanse of flatland in North America.
High Plains – southeastern Wyoming, southwestern South Dakota, western Nebraska (including the Sand Hills), eastern Colorado, western Kansas, western Oklahoma, eastern New Mexico, and northwestern Texas (including the Llano Estacado and Texas Panhandle);
Historically, the Great Plains were the range of the Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and others.
Colorado River (Texas)
1 linksApproximately 862 mi long river in the U.S. state of Texas.
Approximately 862 mi long river in the U.S. state of Texas.
The Colorado River originates south of Lubbock, on the Llano Estacado near Lamesa.
The upper Colorado River was controlled by Comanches from the early 18th century to the late 19th century.
Kiowa
1 linksIndigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States.
Indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States.
Sálqáhyóp or Sálqáhyói (″Southerners″, lit. ′Hot People′, 'southern Kiowa', lived in the Llano Estacado (Staked Plains), Oklahoma Panhandle and Texas Panhandle, allies of the Comanche).
In the early spring of 1790 at the place that would become Las Vegas, New Mexico, a Kiowa party led by war leader Guikate, made an offer of peace to a Comanche party while both were visiting the home of a mutual friend of both tribes.
Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
1 linksMilitary confrontation and a significant United States victory during the Red River War.
Military confrontation and a significant United States victory during the Red River War.
Late in the summer of 1874, Quahada Comanche, Southern Cheyenne, Arapaho and Kiowa warriors led by Lone Wolf left their assigned reservations and sought refuge in Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle.
The first column moved north along the edge of the Staked Plains, the second advanced up the Red River and the third marched from Fort Sill.
Comancheria
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The Comancheria or Comanchería (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ, 'Comanche land') was a region of New Mexico, west Texas and nearby areas occupied by the Comanche before the 1860s.
It also included West Texas, the Llano Estacado, the Texas Panhandle, the Edwards Plateau (including the Texas Hill Country), Eastern New Mexico, western Oklahoma including the Oklahoma Panhandle and the Wichita Mountains, southeastern Colorado and southwestern Kansas.
Quanah Parker
0 linksQuanah Parker (Comanche kwana, "smell, odor") (c.
Quanah Parker (Comanche kwana, "smell, odor") (c.
1845 – February 20, 1911) was a war leader of the Kwahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche Nation.
Quanah Parker's was the last tribe of the Staked Plains or Llano Estacado to come to the reservation.
Edwards Plateau
0 linksGeographic region at the crossroads of Central, South, and West Texas.
Geographic region at the crossroads of Central, South, and West Texas.
It is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the south and east, the Llano Uplift and the Llano Estacado to the north, and the Pecos River and Chihuahuan Desert to the west.
After the expulsion of the Apachean groups from the Plains by the Comanche, this area was dominated by the Penateka band of the Southern Comanche.