Comanche

had to fight to protect his land from white encroachment, land that was supposed to have already been protected by treaties. Lone Wolf and several other Indians had sued Interior Secretary Ethan Allen Hitchcock to stop the allotment of the Kiowa-Comanche- Apache Reservation located in El Reno, Oklahoma. According to article 12 of the Medicine Lodge treaty made in 1867, the cession of Indian land was forbidden unless approved by three-fourths of the tribe's male members. This was dismissed in the…

been the most influential on my life and made the most difference on my perspective about conserving and saving ecosystems. Ten years from now when I have children I plan to take them to West Texas to visit the pupfish and take a nice dip into the Comanche hot…

destroyed. For example, the pursuit of buffalo in the 1870’s became “less like hunting and more like extermination” (Gwynne, 152). In 1873, a hunter named Tom Nixon killed 3,258 buffalo in 35 days (153). The buffalo were not only the main food source for Comanche tribe, but was also a spiritual being to many of the Native Americans that lived in the Great Plains. Thankfully, the…

Our readings including Shadows at Dawn: A Borderland Massacre and the Violence of History, A Western Nation’s Rise and Decline: Comanche Economy on the Southern Plains, and The Winning of the West: The Expansion of the Western Sioux in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, highlighted the importance and prominence of raiding to the participating tribes. As history progressed, the…

A SOLUTION TO THE “INDIAN PROBLEM” 1887 As American power and populace developed in the nineteenth century, the Unified States continuously dismissed the fundamental standard of bargain making—that clans were self-representing countries—and started approaches that undermined innate sway. For Indian countries, these arrangements brought about broken settlements, immense land misfortune, expulsion and movement, populace decay, and social devastation. Native American Policy can be characterized as…

I've been finding myself lying awake more and more recently, tossing and turning and tangling the blankets, unable to sleep. Getting into staring contests with the shadows pooled like ink in the edges of my room. Now, insomnia is a problem a lot of folks have, and I’m certainly no stranger to it. Stress, problems- kids, bills, the corrosive apathy of suburbia- they fester and rot in the recesses of my thoughts, and the sleeplessness lets itself in through the holes all that shit eats away. Just…

Geronimo (Apache chief) leads attacks into Mexico. The U.S. then places soldiers near his reservation, so Geronimo and some of his people escape to their stronghold in Mexico and build an army. Geronimo flees the reservation again when he hears rumors he is going to be arrested. Then the U.S. army sends a large force against Geronimo's 24 men. He surrenders and is sent to prison in Florida. He dies on a reservation as a prisoner of war. Little Wolf (Northern−Cheyenne chief) who helps lead a…

The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition was historically important because these men were the first people, not Indians, to explore much of Utah gaining information on the people that they met and the land itself. The Dominguez-Escalante Journal it the accounting of the expedition traveling thru Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. Father Dominguez and Father Escalante’s party included “twelve Spanish colonials and two Indians”. The Mexican Government enlisted a catholic priest, Francisco Dominguez to…

The topic of government and economy within the west has intrigued historians for decades. Many questions have been raised in regards to the ethics involved when settling the west, and how our country would differ if those series of events were handled disparately. When the settling of the west occurred, the ideology of the settlers was along the lines of: “ride forth my son and stake your claim for God has determined it”, otherwise known as manifest destiny. This mindset is the reason the…

Writing history, N. Scott Momaday the author of The Way to Rainy Mountain, writes to remember, recollect, and restore his cultural heritage essay (Oates, Joyce 2000). In his pictorial essay, revealing and recovering what is part of his own untold story, Momaday takes on a journey to be at the Aho’s grave, his beloved grandmother and revive her memories of Kiowa. Artfully, he merges two sets of stories to cast his tale: first, he describes Aho’s memories as the only human link to his tribe and…