Comanche

Momaday visits Rainy Mountain to pay his respects to their grandmother at her grave. The grandmother had died at a very old age with her face that of a child. She was born while the Kiowas were still living well. The Kiowas had an alliance with the Comanche and both were very fine horsemen who had ruled much of the land for many years. However, shortcomings in their warfare strategy soon became their downfall as they failed to beat U.S. Cavalry as they became divided and ended up in…

Geographical and Cultural regions of Texas The Panhandle plains The Panhandle plain is situated in the northernmost of Texas State. This major Texan geographical feature spans about 81,500 square meters. The feature is narrow and straight forming the shape of a pan. The Panhandle is majorly covered in grassland, plain and some areas flat. In other cases, the Panhandle plains is referred to as the ‘Staked Plains’ or Llano Estacado. The Panhandle is majorly treeless. The land is situated in a…

I decided to go to the Comanche Casino in Oklahoma. At the time I was living in Wichita Falls, TX. As I crossed the border of Texas and Oklahoma, I exited on the off ramp. I see flashing lights ahead of me. As I stopped and rolled down my window, Officer Anderson asked me “If I…

Native Americans have endured harsh and cruel punishment since the establishment of the United States of America. Native Americans were murdered, raped, stolen from and placed on a reservation. Now Native Americans have to deal with their culture being stolen as well. The country is divided on this issue. Countless Americans feel it is okay to steal another race’s culture and exploit it for financial gain. The United States census of 2010 shows that Americans Indians only make up 1.7 percent of…

The legend has evolved over time and reshaped over a series of economic and political disruptions by the Spaniards, Comanche, and US government and based on where the tribe was located at the time. What remains unchanging however are that they are deeply rooted in their spiritual practices and belief in the Creator. The creator is the life-giver who created not only mankind…

During the years prior to the war, Mexico was in debt after recently gaining its independence from Spain, because of its debt, the newly founded country was no longer to offer healthy trade with the surrounding Indian tribes. One of these tribes, the Comanche, retaliated by conducting raids throughout the Mexican country side leaving destruction everywhere they went. United States believed that Mexico was incompetent in handling the surrounding Native American tribes so seizing the state appear…

Paul Chaat Smith’s essay “The Big Movie,” which appears in The Norton Mix, addresses the question of why western movies portray the American Indian in the manner they do. Smith, who is a member of the Comanche tribe, looks at western films from the perspective of Indians. He provides a brief history of the American western movie, along with historical information about how and why Indians appear as they do in movies. He concludes with the observation that unless they appear within what Smith…

Through John Grady Cole’s intense desire to find a place where he and his dreams belong, McCarthy questions how far he will go to follow his passions. John Grady decided to ride “out where the western fork of the old Comanche road” ran through the westernmost section of the ranch, which symbolizes him ultimately realizing that he can’t pursue his passions on his family’s ranch in Texas (McCarthy 5). John Grady has a strong desire to pursue his dreams even if that means leaving his home. McCarthy…

mentioned repetitively in the creation stories that the Native Americans share with one another. It is rooted deeply into their mythology and ideology that they believed to have been created from the swirls and dust that fills the land, with the Comanches being an excellent example of a tribe with strong convictions in such beliefs. Subsequently I found it interesting to note that several more myths and superstitions would later emerge, myths of cities built of gold and vast amounts of treasure…

When discussing the American West, one cannot carry on a conversation without mentioning the Native Americans. They played many roles throughout American history. In the west they played several. American Indians opened up the west by helping explorers, elevated the horse in their culture to an iconic status, changed the ecological balance in many places throughout the west, proved to the U.S. and Mexico that they were a force to be reckoned with. First, the Native Americans played an important…