Comanche Tribe Research Paper

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I. Comanche Tribe
a. The Comanche tribe’s demographics of this culture is 16,372
i. The Comanche tribe primarily stays in Texas, Oklahoma, and or New Mexico. ii. Comanche’s religion was infused with spirituality. The Comanche tribe had some traditional vision quest ceremonies. iii. The Comanche language is an endangered language. It became scarce over the years. But the official language is a Uto-Aztecan language of the southern plains. iv. The Comanche tribe was separated from a Shoshonean group in Wyoming back in the late seventeenth century.
II. Vision Quest Ceremonies
a. The Comanche religious practices were very original and unorthodox.
b. The vision quest was described as individualistic, only males would get a vision quest ceremony.

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