@@shanice5722 Horses were here long before white people existed. 3000 year old paintings of horses in South America. Stop regurgitating what your uneducated parents taught you. -COMANCHE NATION
@@mariawest250 Maybe if they didn't go around gang raping, mutilating, torturing, and murdering every single man woman and child they came across including other indigenous tribes. They'd have survived.
Im in the Blackfoot Confederacy nation tribe. In Canada, southern Alberta. Thanks for the shout-out man. This is awesome. Natives are getting more and more recognized and remember colonial immigrant society.
Fun fact: when a Comanche died, any slaves he owned were killed with them. This video mentioned burning all their property of the deceased & it mentioned captives/slaves were property. Check out a book called “nine years among the Indians” by Herman Lehrmann, who was taken captive and became member of both Apache and Comanche tribes. Wild stuff
People also need to realize that back in those times before all the settlers began coming West in covered wagons, their were these magazines that were like dime store entertainment that white folks bought to read. Many were total made up stories of white captives and their encounters with the demonic boogy men savages and that helped form Alot of the opinion the settlers held before coming West. If a group of Indians even tried to approach they would be shot at. By white law in those days. A black man was not included in the United States Constitution because he was only considered to be part human Sub human. In the Constitution it also mentions that the Native Americans were also exempt from the Constitution because they were savages and had absolutely no human soul. That's the attitude all Natives back then faced. They had no care to learn any cultural respectful way to deal with a party of Natives approaching them to know why they were trespassing and the way was for them to offer food horses and gifts for a totally unwanted intrusion. If they tried to approach they were shot at. The US government sent out a note of advice when traveling West on how to deal with the wild Indians when they encountered them on the journey and it was to not have any friendly relationships with them.
Oh yes, breach loading guns had nothing on the bow. A skilled Comanche horseman could loose twenty arrows in the time it took a White settler to load and fire his gun twice, before the making of the revolver. And let’s not forget that the Comanche adapted well to firearms-Arming themselves, learning their use, their ongoing adaptation of new tactics. If the Comanche had the numbers and had been able to protect the buffalo, they might have had a chance to withstand the White influx.
More Native American tribes history until we've covered them all for a 40 or something mins vid of all together. 2 more ideas...talk about thunderbirds and pukwudgies, the American equivalent ta Europe's well renowned phoenixes and goblins.
I agree, my mom's side of the family is part of the Choctaw tribe. So it would be amazing to learn more about the different types, their culture and everything.
@@Turtlemilk Aside from having superior armor and weapons. Mongols had much more experience fighting all different kinds of more advanced civilizations and winning. Plus Arbans consisting of 10 men is the basic Mongolian military structure, they were required to live together, operate together and fight as a unit on the battlefield, hence there'd be more cohesion among the 10 Mongols for carrying out more varieties of battlefield maneuvers.
This is a really great, succinct video! My great grandmother was Comanche, my grandfather became a Lt. Col teaching dentist while serving in Army Calvary. I spent every summer at the allied rez Ft. Sill and campfire girls outside Lawton, OK.
Thanks for helping people to get that straight, Joseph. Do you speak the Kiowa and/or Commanche languages, or know anyone who still does? It's really imperative that they be preserved and kept alive. The stories of the Commanche and Kiowa peoples are one of the great - and tragic - stories of American history. That's what I think anyway I even have a copy of "A Dictionary of the Commanche Language" - somewhere. Wasn't Kicking Bird Kiowa?
@@peterplotts1238 I agree! I unfortunately I don't know Kiowa or Comanche, I do know a few words in both Comanche and Kiowa though. I also know people who are fluent in Comanche! I don't know for sure if Kicking Bird was Kiowa but it sounds right, I'm not certain though.
It would be amazing if you made a video on the Native Americans that were hispanicized and lived on the missions, most people haven’t realized that some Hispanics/Latinos are descended from them and not just Spaniards.
The crazy thing is alot of "hispanic" especially with Mexican roots are majority native. I've read that if people in Mexico were to claim their native roots like in the USA something like 80% of the population would be native. But we get thrown under the bus for not being 100% when that happens. My fathers like 70% native and 9% Spanish and 8% Portuguese so like 17% total Hispanic/latino I would say. Considered Mexican or Hispanic anything but native American even though he grew up making metates with his otomi speaking grandmother. Even the terms we have when talking about native culture is pre_hispanic, pre- columbian. It only emphasizes the latin side like so we forget the native side
@@juanbautista7214 I agree, I found out fairly recently that I was majority Native. What’s annoying is that we have to put White/Hispanic on identification forms well at least I’ve always been told to do so, even though there are Americans of African descent that have just as much European blood as some Hispanicized Natives even having European last names too but no one is going to tell them to identify White.
@@TheAllyNative lol 😆 yep. I had to get a new birth certificate because passport office wouldn't accept my old one. Under race it says Caucasian. Colonialism still in effect erasing the memory of some of our closest descendants. I'm like a 3rd total in European descendant, and 54% native, which i always figured i was at least half, but if its not a Dawes roll, USA recognized tribe most act like you don't know what your talking about.
@@juanbautista7214 it’s crazy how the government has Native American as a race, but you have to be part of a tribe or culture which is how ethnicity works not race which is based on phenotypical traits and genetics. Also the reason we have to put White/Hispanic is because of the caste system the Spanish had before. I’m 62% Indigenous and like 26% Spanish.
My water pressure was way too high last week. When I turned the garden tap on to water, the hose whipped around and belted me behind my ear. THAT'S what I call a wild hose!!
I read that the Comanche's were one of the first, if not the first tribe to actually breed their horses, so as to bring out more favorable traits in their horses. They also very rarely got off their superior horses to fight. They knew their strengths and doing things while on horseback was second nature as they learned quite young. If you want to read the greatest book on this tribe, I suggest reading; Empire of the Summer Moon! You will find it a difficult book to put down.
I am Shoshone, our Tribe is closely associated with the Comanche Tribe. We were once 1Tribe, and have made our connection to them. If you’re familiar with the Lewis & Clark Journal, it states at Shoshone village in Idaho when the Shoshone we’re going to hunt antelope Clark or Lewis noticed some horse tack made with silver. Shoshone said they got it from their brothers who lived at a distance. Continue. This tell us that the Shoshone & Comanche are one or Brothers.
Shoshone we’re one of the first Tribes to have horses. We got our horses from Comanches because we have always maintained contact with them. Other Tribes got horses by trade or war with the Shoshone.
Thank you for doing the video my Grandmother was full Comanche. I am surprised you did not bring up Quanah Parker in this and what he did for the Comanche.
Loved watching westerns growing up as a little girl. Cowboys and Indians lol. Dances with wolves featuring Kevin Costner is a an old classic. It’s been a while and now feel like watching it.
@@joshuabullard828 I dated his daughter for a number of years and met him several times Ted passed away several years ago He grew up on the reservation. He shared great stories which I enjoyed He was a marvelous man and a great athlete I loved his humor He wrote a book called the reservation and another one which I forgot. I'm still friends with his grandson 30 years later He's like his grandfather smart as a whip and an excellent athlete
@@willrogan955 that’s good and I bet he had some crazy stories about life on the reservation my uncle went and did work in reservations in North Dakota tbh I can’t recall the tribe maybe Lakota or something but it’s sad how mos true true tribes don’t exist anymore due to wars and disease , expansion, and other causes. I also went to the leader of the Iroquois nations funeral a few years back. It was amazing to see a full on native American funeral. They did a dance around a fire and had full headdresses and chest pieces it was truly awesome to see not for him dying tho ofc
"Mistreating them in a very cruel way" must be the understatement of the century. A people who fought hard and were hard to conquer. Giving horses to the indians was a HUGE mistake.
Read about the Comanches in empire of the summer moon. Definitely an interesting tribe who stayed prehistoric yet were the most powerful tribe in the plains
Yep I read that book also. The only non fiction book I’ve ever enjoyed. As to the subject matter wow was I shocked to learn how brutal and heartless they were to their captives and slaves. If you were to battle
Most respect to you, your elders, and your people. From your Chickahominny/Cherokee/Choctaw brother. Their was a Cherokee chief named Chief Bowles who was what was called the Old Settlers. They decided to leave the homeland and come on out west. He brought his people to Texas. Bowles was accused of helping and allowing warriors to fight for the Comanche. The Texans massacred them for it
It was the European horse that drastically changed the Comanche way of life where they became a fast moving raiding party that focused on attacking small European groups of settlers. They lost their war against cavalry.
The Comanches & other Tribes lost the war against Caucasians because they had firearms of many kind, & because there were so many to continuously fight. I always remember the lines in “Dances With Wolves” about the White eyes being so many that the situation was, negative changes were coming for Native People. Yes it was!
It was specifically Spanish horses that were brought to the Southwest where the Comanche lived. The Comanche obtained horses from them. Before other White men came into the area.
The Camanche lost their war against the Calvary because the Calvary used Natives who knew where to locate the Camanche, as is most wars against Natives the Calvary used Native guides to help them locate the Natives they fought against. Taking the Camanche by surprise insured their victory. Can’t blame any Natives who fought for their homes while the Europeans move in to take whatever they wanted! It was the Spanish horse that first came to this land that made it possible for the Natives to have horses!
It took that "Calvary' a very long time to learn to fight and defeat the native warriors. They assumed native warriors knew nothing about martial arts and hand to hand combat. We primative people made it take you 300 years of warfare and We with the arrows and bows and low numbers to get to the point of forcing us onto your zoos. Living Fossils we are. Like Seattle said. After the Indians are on reservation our ancestors spirits will play with the white man's children
Great video. Oklahoman here, and member of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma. Your pronunciations of the Kiowa and Arapaho were a little off, but this is an excellent synopsis of the Comanche. Aho.
@@Airemelde ,, This was practiced among Indian Tribes long before the Europeans showed up. We like to think all was peace an harmony among the Indian Tribe,,,, but it was not. They made war against each other.
@@davidleatherneck I'm not talking about when Europeans started invading America and what Native American did to white people and vice versa. It was more a general note on things. Comanches (and other Native American tribes) might have had some pretty nasty knowledge on how to torture people but so did plenty of other people at different times in history in different places/countries. Many humans have a tendency to be as horrible as possible to each other when given the opportunity to be.
To me the Comanches use of the horse was absolutely amazing one thing that people for get is that before the Spanish and other European nations brought the domesticated horse to America the native Americans didn't have a horse and once gotten the Comanche become some of the best horse people of the world
Learn your History, Horses are native to North America, the Indians already had them, more then likely the asians that crossed the pacific to come to the americas brought them, but it’s a fact HORSES we’re already here
and yes the Native Americans , we’re ASIANS, that’s a fact also , ASIANS got here first , it’s been proven through DNA learn about Haplo group D then speak
@@jasontalbot3256 like i said do some research , don’t just cut and paste , people with brains actually do studies that prove things were they are not true, Ask any Indian they will tell you , horses were already here
You missed the part where they were considered some of the best archers in human history, so good in fact that the revolver was born specifically to deal with them as the rifles the settlers had werent fast enough or accurate enough to deal with the fast hit and run tactics of the Comanche so the revolver was needed just to tip the scales against the Comanche. Their archery was unique in that they trained with their bows from childhood to the point of not even having to look at their targets to hit them as the bow was like an extension of the body to them. It wasnt the horses they were famous for, it what the archery they could do while riding, they were known to hang off the side of the horse using it as a shield while somewhat blind firing up over the horse and still hitting their marks. Sadly there is little to nothing left of these skills amongst their people now as those skills where lost after the trail of tears. Also I believe its pronounced "Shuh-show- ni". Also, on the topic of "slavery" with native tribes, their version of slavery is not always the same as what we imagine today(the more "old world" form). I cant speak for all tribes but for at least some slavery was more like mandatory labor while living in a with the tribe, the conditions were nothing like cotton plantations and there was usually an effort to integrate the captured slaves into members of the tribe. Whether this was the case for the Comanche I cant say but I know this was common among a various tribes. Not all tribes are the same though, take the Chinook who were known to enslave and had their own cruel caste system with the upper caste on one side of the river and the lower caste on the other side. Thanks for posting this, the indigenous peoples here are criminally overlooked and under appreciated. EDIT: I made a few corrections and do apologize for those mistakes. As I stated there isnt a lot of places that cover the indigenous peoples and their ways of life in great detail, what they were exceptional at, what they valued most and how they distributed resources, goods and land amongst the tribes members or if they did it at all, what the men did vs what the women did, how tribehood was determined, how tribes are related and why, how they viewed love and how they showed it, you get the idea. Part of this I suspect is due to many not wanting to share their cultures with the general public in an effort to prevent it from becoming watered down and commodified rather than understood and appreciated which I completely understand. The bigger part I imagine is due to the catastrophic loss of life between illness, genocide by foreigners and the trail of tears. To my understanding a lot was lost leaving massive holes in the knowledge of history, traditions, technical skills, arts and beliefs for most if not all the tribes to some extent. Most sources I find offer only surface level knowledge, basic pop culture mythbusting, no they werent all more peaceful than the Europeans, yes some practiced slavery, no it wasnt identical to what was practiced in the world but it was slavery and it was dehumanizing at least until the tribe saw them as true members, no they werent always enemies with the white man as there are many stories of mountain men and western trail guides who married indigenous women and became recognized members of their tribes(though not always that simple I assume).
Thank you, now I know some more Native American history. I had never heard about the archery skills of the Comanche before. I'll have to do some more reading, or online research.
RM, you do know the Comanche and all other Native American tribes used to conquer and enslave one another all the time, don't you? Same with Africa, Asia, South America. Sadly it was a way of life in the ancient world and still is today. Man's cruelty to man never ceases.
Fought alongside Apaches? You're mistaken, friend. It was the Comanches, specifically the Nokonis and Penatekas, which had forced the Lipans, Mescaleros and Jicarillas from the grassy plains of Texas into the deserts and canyons of New Mexico and Arizona.
I wouldn’t say defeated. There was a river line that Comanches knew not to cross out of fear of crossing Chiricahua Apache territory. Apache were one if the last tribes to surrender
@@squidy3603 i would. they pushed the apache off the southern plains. and nearly exterminated them, they were not at all scared of a tribe very much smaller than them.
@@RedHawk-z8z for mountain apache like Chiricahua, they couldn’t. In the plains sure but not in Apache territory. They wouldn’t have been able to conquer them in their own territory
Read: lords of the southern plains, empire of the summer moon, nine years among the Indians and Geronimo’s biography. Awesome reading, you can get all these books cheap on the internet. Ur welcome
@@RoyCyberPunk I think what they lacked was a greater common enemy to drive them to unify and become stronger. Sadly, the arrival of the Europeans was too sudden and invasive that it did not give them enough time to adapt. If a Genghis Khan was born in the Americas at that time, it wouldn't have mattered as they were sorely behind in experience and technology. The steppe nomads had to deal with China's antics for generations from the Huns, the Gokturks, until eventually culminating to the unification of all the steppe tribes and the domination of China in the hands of the Mongols. Their isolation from the rest of the world is basically what f'ed them up.
You hit the nail with the hammer! Comanche had Eucauracapa, a great statesmen and military leader. He made peace with New Mexico in 1786 and the Comanche were good for the next 100 years almost... until the Civil War and railroad came.
I'm a Comanche, but I do feel sorry for the other tribes names they were mispronounced. It's bad enough that so many of these tribes were butchered, but now their names are butchered also. Just saying
People are butchered all over the world man. Dialects accents cmon man.... and butchered... don't care that they butchered Apache and other tribes?? Raping settlers
@@KC-nn5wc because the natives were fighting over land that they thought belonged to them. The Europeans never had any rights to it in the first place.
They nearly annihilated the Apaches and terrorized the Pawnees, Osages, Arapaho like Huns and offered very little culturally compared to sedentary tribes. If Americans and Europeans are told to no longer see the conquering of the Americas with pride, I am not sure why native Americans would see the Comanche as a good example of their virtues.
This sentiment is so weird, it's exactly like the whole "he was no angel" thing. It's using the brutality that native tribes used on each other to justify their almost complete destruction (genocide really)
@@Briskies702 You missed the point: if Europeans should be ashamed of conquering the Americas, why should native Americans be proud of their military prowess between themselves? It's called hypocrisy and a double standard.
The Comanche were the most feared tribe by other Indian tribes as well. In fact , the US government and other Indian tribes worked together to stop the Comanche
Would love to see a vid on the tribes that were exterminated or almost exterminated by other native american tribes. And which tribes did most of the exterminating.
I’m second generation British but British nonetheless, so am used to feeling bad watching history videos. The treatment of the Native Tribes and them being stripped of the pride, lied to and decimated by our diseases. It’s heart breaking. Genocide is so unacceptable and yet again and again it happens.
@@russell5078084 war is more complicated than that at times. Desperation and revolution spring to mind. Many times the weaker side prevailed when it came to defending their homes.
@@patsysadowski1546 that latter is usually due to a great deal of luck. The perfect example of what I said would be the aztecs vs the Spanish conquistadors.
The Native Americans were meaner to one another than the white man ever had time to be to them. We just had one unknown factor that they couldn't deal with - disease. Small Pox, as everyone knows, killed more Indians than anything.
That’s because they were legitimate combatants to the US federals and committed atrocities against captured citizens. Hence, people of the time had no political will to offer them land and recognition.
Could someone advise me what to read about the general battle between Apaches and and Comanches? It seems to me that Apaches at first were more powerful and then Comanches get stronger and took revenge... and Apaches liked to attack from an ambush while Comanches prefer a cavalry rides and attacks. In Europe Apaches are more known because of Karl May books "Winnetou" and "Old Surehand" In these books Apaches were like good guys and Comanches - bad guys... But if we would speak about tortures, I think both of tribes were very inventive :) ( At the moment I'm reading "Empire of the Summer moon") Nice video, thanks.
Even though I am a Caucasian female, I find Native American customs extremely interesting! Most native tribes treated people way better than the Europeans that were coming to “civilize“ them. I liked the part that you talked about how they used to bury their dead. However, do you, or anybody know of any videos that talk about other cultural customs? Such as marriage, childbirth, training men and women etc? Thank you for this video I really do appreciate it! Thank you! I hope the natives never lose all of their culture.
You do realize that they treated each other as brutally or worse than the Europeans treated them, right? They were especially keen on torturing captives, and had no mercy on women or children.
Sahtu Dene in Canadas western arctic still burn the possessions of the dead . Anything they touched clothing beds skidoos etc . Every sahtu Dene community has a area where you will find dozens and dozens of grave goods burnings
Drifting goose [ Magabobdu] the mystic warrior was the last free Dakota sioux to lead Dakota sioux raids. During the 1870's against the settlers and the rail road survivors. Iin the James River Valley north of Redfield county SD untouched land. The american settlers called the Dakota sioux leader the notorious drifting goose. Angered the US government and the US army made drifting goose leave his land! Finally spring of 1880 the Dakota sioux leader led the last free proud hunkpati Dakota sioux to the crow creek sioux Indian reservation at old Fort Thompson SD were his descents live today. Drifting goose can speak Dakota- Nakota- Lakota- English and German language. Drifting goose will become one of the five Dakota sioux leaders [ chiefs] of the crow creek sioux sioux Indian tribe.
Drafting goose was the plains Indian chief who tried to hold to his territory. Will the white settlers came in thousands to claim his land! When the white people took over Drifting goose log cabin he and his family had to live in Burch berk tipi his young son died of sickness. He was sioux Indian east of Missouri River trying to keep white people off his land. Drifting goose finally give up in 1880 after everything wasn't going his way.
@@blackbetsy59 but comanche fought one last war not against the us military. But the Buffalo hunters war of 1876 - 1877 led by black horse not as bloody as the great sioux war sittingbull's war the same. time. But the great sioux war lasted too may of 1877 crazy horse surrender at Fort Robinson and the battle of lame deer and crazy horse death in September 3 1877 and fastbulls surrender at Fort Robinson 30 September. The campaigns against sittingbull of 1879 - 1881 bearcoat miles largemilitary forces with crow Indian scouts attack three hundred hunkpapa Lakota sioux hunting bands led by sittingbull. The battle of the milk River July 17th 1879 forcing sittingbull into Canada. The hunkpapa war party attack a haycuuters on the powder River on January 30 1880 the tongue River tributary to the punkin creek. The battle of the pumpkin creek February 7th - 8th 1880 a company of us soldiers and crow scouts fought sittingbull's hunkpapa Lakota war party there. The battle of the popular river January 2nd 1881 us soldiers crossed the frozen river then opened fire with their powerful weapons over an hour. The hunkpapa- Oglala Lakota sioux encampment escape north to the surrounding hills also near the Canadian border. A woman was screaming to end the fighting she was hit by a bullet later died of her wounds. Eight innocent Lakota people were killed on the battle field! Finally the Lakota sioux surrendered chief gall look like a old Roman General when he handed his weapon to the American commander. The us soldiers made the poor Lakota sioux people walk over twenty miles in sub zero temperatures to fort Burford ND were they became prisoners of war. A decade before the wounded knee massacre dec 29 1890 when Custer old seventh calvery regiment killed thirty five hunkpapa Lakota and chief Bigfoot's minneaconjou Lakota band. A cold sad day to remember.
0:57 why are the Spanish always referred to as Conquistadors and the English as Colonist when both had the same objectives? The Spanish in New Mexico had developed trade relations with the Comanches so strong that even when the American Conquistadors from Eastern US began using the Santa Fe trail (and eventually using it to invaded and conquered The Southwest US) Comanches would attack American traders but would leave the Spanish traders alone. This trade pact would remain in affect until the American Conquistadors eventually subjugated the Comanche nation and drove it into ruin.
Colonist/colonizer is seen as an insult in 2022 Conquistador has a certain romanticism... I'd rather be called a Conquistador to be honest.. It's also very rare for hispanics to be blamed for all the crimes of the past yet the Northern European is still having to apologize for acting no worse than Spanish colonizers of the new world..
Basically because it means conquerors. The spanish went into the unknown found a civilization and conquered it. Their plan was to plunder and run to their country as wealthy men. Not settle. The settlers went with the objective of making a small town free from the government. At least more free than other parts of the country.
the spanish are called conquistadores because they came first and started to conquer. the english came after not to conquer but to escape persecution in europe so english seen as colonists.
A violent agressive and savage tribe whose 'culture" and "way of life" was essentially just a Eurasian nomadic horse archer lifestyle akin to the Huns, Scythians, or Mongols. They're not that unique.
I'm Apache descent, and I feel such awe towards the Comanche despite their terrorism against the Apache. The Comanche have my disgruntled respect for thwarting off colonialism for a long time.
I'm going from memory, but weren't these the dudes that raided so far South into Mexico that they saw monkeys, and described them as little humans or something like that?
I got more respect for a native speaker telling about the Native American history more than any other race but it’s nice to see the history of fellows natives around America finally heard and somewhat Understood it’s a good video other than the mispronunciations
A gross exaggeration, the Comanche didn’t even come close to the mongols. Their empire was much smaller, their military was much weaker, and their legacy much smaller than the mongols. If the Comanche ever fought the mongols they would be destroyed.
The revolver was not invented to combat the Indian it was a useful tool for sure but the Indian quickly became more powerful as they used them themselves but the fighting abilities of the young braves is spot on the were masters in their use of the horse and they had no match whatsoever with their bow incredible warriors but the revolver pistol was invented for many reasons but specifically for the defense of the Indian warriors is simply not accurate
Glen, do a little research on the Walker Colt. It was designed for the Texas Rangers to combat the Comanche. It worked. It helped even the odds against the devastating Comanche bow and arrows. They were the true lords of the southern plains.
@@mac_segaa6124 Only reference or acknowledgement of Code Talkers I've known, was from the Nicholas Cage movie Wind Talkers about the Navajo Soldiers. Had no idea of other Native Americans involved in Code language, especially in the European Theater. Your Grandfather along with the rest deserve proper acknowledgement for their contributions, you should be proud!
Interesting note: although there were horses in N. America in ancient times, ancient times, every modern horse is derived from ancient Asian steppe horses.
I have an honest question that can't seem to be answered.. If America gave back the land, to which tribe would it go. The original tribe, or the tribe that took it from the other?
I'm a Comanche Indian 63 winters on mother earth and praying and meditating to mother for decades people are so disconnected from mother earth know in the government not talking about it you see it and hear about it and do nothing ! Think about like this every day is worst than the last day 🤬😡 one half of the country will be flooded and tornado like f-15 f20 and the other side will be wildfires droughts volcano 🤬 so we need to be thinking about growing are own food for Americans please believe and share 🙏😡
Should check out The NZ Land Wars, the English came with the biggest arsenal in the Empires history and still couldn't defeat my people ( Maori), mystified as to how all there cannons had no effect on our villages, they soon discovered our secret was well constructed trenches behind the fences of our Pa (forts), hence, Europeans first time they encountered trench warfare early 1800's, which was then utilized in World War 1, this is only one of many ingenious tactics used by my people to nullify the advantage of firearms, because we didn't have long range weaponry, we were also masters of Guerilla warfare, I believe the NZ wars were covered up because the British couldn't accept being out thought by a bunch of savages with Taiaha (Spears), Patu (clubs), little more than a handful of guns
I love how they were described as the ugliest, slovenly, and foulest look humans you would ever set eyes on until they mounted their horses and suddenly transformed into the most graceful and beautiful of any horsemen.
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I’m Cherokee and I want to thank everyone here for sharing 💪👍🥰
Comanches were the most feared tribe. They held back the English, French, and Spanish from settling western America for a few hundred years.
An archer did a science dive on Comanche speed arrows... it's here on TH-cam, somewhere
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Horses were here long before white people existed.
3000 year old paintings of horses in South America.
Stop regurgitating what your uneducated parents taught you.
-COMANCHE NATION
Sad at the end they lost their lives
@@mariawest250not all of em lol most tribes r still here pal
@@mariawest250 Maybe if they didn't go around gang raping, mutilating, torturing, and murdering every single man woman and child they came across including other indigenous tribes. They'd have survived.
Im in the Blackfoot Confederacy nation tribe. In Canada, southern Alberta. Thanks for the shout-out man. This is awesome. Natives are getting more and more recognized and remember colonial immigrant society.
I'm a cree from Northern alberta, my grandmother is Blackfoot. Salute!
Assimilating is all we wanted
Probably one of the best brief videos about my people I’ve ever watched very respectful but also blunt about our people
Fun fact: when a Comanche died, any slaves he owned were killed with them. This video mentioned burning all their property of the deceased & it mentioned captives/slaves were property.
Check out a book called “nine years among the Indians” by Herman Lehrmann, who was taken captive and became member of both Apache and Comanche tribes. Wild stuff
What slaves?
Emmit Tills father?
-COMANCHE NATION
You say check out a book! I say ask them yourself.
@@franklin28823 Herman Lehrmann was born 1850-ish, he’s dead by now. Can’t ask him personally.
People also need to realize that back in those times before all the settlers began coming West in covered wagons, their were these magazines that were like dime store entertainment that white folks bought to read. Many were total made up stories of white captives and their encounters with the demonic boogy men savages and that helped form Alot of the opinion the settlers held before coming West. If a group of Indians even tried to approach they would be shot at. By white law in those days. A black man was not included in the United States Constitution because he was only considered to be part human Sub human. In the Constitution it also mentions that the Native Americans were also exempt from the Constitution because they were savages and had absolutely no human soul. That's the attitude all Natives back then faced. They had no care to learn any cultural respectful way to deal with a party of Natives approaching them to know why they were trespassing and the way was for them to offer food horses and gifts for a totally unwanted intrusion. If they tried to approach they were shot at. The US government sent out a note of advice when traveling West on how to deal with the wild Indians when they encountered them on the journey and it was to not have any friendly relationships with them.
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Woah dude, spoilers..
Comanches, so fierce that the revolver had to be invented just to have a fighting chance against their fully automatic bows
I did not know that interesting.
The revolver only leveled the playing field. It was the lever action that finally tipped the odds against them.
Oh yes, breach loading guns had nothing on the bow. A skilled Comanche horseman could loose twenty arrows in the time it took a White settler to load and fire his gun twice, before the making of the revolver.
And let’s not forget that the Comanche adapted well to firearms-Arming themselves, learning their use, their ongoing adaptation of new tactics.
If the Comanche had the numbers and had been able to protect the buffalo, they might have had a chance to withstand the White influx.
More Native American tribes history until we've covered them all for a 40 or something mins vid of all together. 2 more ideas...talk about thunderbirds and pukwudgies, the American equivalent ta Europe's well renowned phoenixes and goblins.
I agree, my mom's side of the family is part of the Choctaw tribe. So it would be amazing to learn more about the different types, their culture and everything.
10 Comanche versus 10 Mongolians, who would win?
@@Turtlemilk ,, Well, without a doubt the Mongols would win. They ride Harleys.
@@Turtlemilk Aside from having superior armor and weapons. Mongols had much more experience fighting all different kinds of more advanced civilizations and winning. Plus Arbans consisting of 10 men is the basic Mongolian military structure, they were required to live together, operate together and fight as a unit on the battlefield, hence there'd be more cohesion among the 10 Mongols for carrying out more varieties of battlefield maneuvers.
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This is a really great, succinct video!
My great grandmother was Comanche, my grandfather became a Lt. Col teaching dentist while serving in Army Calvary. I spent every summer at the allied rez Ft. Sill and campfire girls outside Lawton, OK.
I would love to see some content on the native mezoamericans. We are also native americans! Greetings from a venezuelan native. :-)
I'm Comanche and Kiowa. I always love to hear about my people's history from different perspectives. also it's pronounced KAI-oh-wuh NOT KEY-oh-wah
And Arapaho is pron'd uh-RAP-uh-HO, not Aira-PA-ho. But I enjoyed the vid.
Came to say this.
Thanks for helping people to get that straight, Joseph. Do you speak the Kiowa and/or Commanche languages, or know anyone who still does? It's really imperative that they be preserved and kept alive. The stories of the Commanche and Kiowa peoples are one of the great - and tragic - stories of American history. That's what I think anyway I even have a copy of "A Dictionary of the Commanche Language" - somewhere. Wasn't Kicking Bird Kiowa?
@@peterplotts1238 I agree! I unfortunately I don't know Kiowa or Comanche, I do know a few words in both Comanche and Kiowa though. I also know people who are fluent in Comanche! I don't know for sure if Kicking Bird was Kiowa but it sounds right, I'm not certain though.
@@josephgutierrez2885 I always loved his name Have you ever seen his portrait? It's great.
It would be amazing if you made a video on the Native Americans that were hispanicized and lived on the missions, most people haven’t realized that some Hispanics/Latinos are descended from them and not just Spaniards.
The crazy thing is alot of "hispanic" especially with Mexican roots are majority native. I've read that if people in Mexico were to claim their native roots like in the USA something like 80% of the population would be native. But we get thrown under the bus for not being 100% when that happens.
My fathers like 70% native and 9% Spanish and 8% Portuguese so like 17% total Hispanic/latino I would say. Considered Mexican or Hispanic anything but native American even though he grew up making metates with his otomi speaking grandmother.
Even the terms we have when talking about native culture is pre_hispanic, pre- columbian. It only emphasizes the latin side like so we forget the native side
@@juanbautista7214 I agree, I found out fairly recently that I was majority Native. What’s annoying is that we have to put White/Hispanic on identification forms well at least I’ve always been told to do so, even though there are Americans of African descent that have just as much European blood as some Hispanicized Natives even having European last names too but no one is going to tell them to identify White.
@@TheAllyNative lol 😆 yep. I had to get a new birth certificate because passport office wouldn't accept my old one. Under race it says Caucasian. Colonialism still in effect erasing the memory of some of our closest descendants. I'm like a 3rd total in European descendant, and 54% native, which i always figured i was at least half, but if its not a Dawes roll, USA recognized tribe most act like you don't know what your talking about.
@@juanbautista7214 it’s crazy how the government has Native American as a race, but you have to be part of a tribe or culture which is how ethnicity works not race which is based on phenotypical traits and genetics. Also the reason we have to put White/Hispanic is because of the caste system the Spanish had before. I’m 62% Indigenous and like 26% Spanish.
I think many of us have known that 4 years.
Stories of the Comanche Indians are really interesting, finest wild hoses trainers, feared by all other tribes and indeed settlers.
Right. And you can bet the settlers feared them - way down into Mexico too.
Ah yes, we wouldn't have tame hoses today without them 😂
They committed atrocities and wiped out smaller tribes like the Caddos. Nothing to be admired about them
My water pressure was way too high last week. When I turned the garden tap on to water, the hose whipped around and belted me behind my ear. THAT'S what I call a wild hose!!
@@lindaeasley5606 and nothing to be admired by you. you sit here and type this comment, but know nothing about the tribe.
I read that the Comanche's were one of the first, if not the first tribe to actually breed their horses, so as to bring out more favorable traits in their horses. They also very rarely got off their superior horses to fight. They knew their strengths and doing things while on horseback was second nature as they learned quite young.
If you want to read the greatest book on this tribe, I suggest reading; Empire of the Summer Moon! You will find it a difficult book to put down.
The Huns of American.
Which reminds me. Where did the Horses come from?
@@davidleatherneck
Espana.....Spain.
@@rustysawyers5109 ,,, YES!!!! The White Man. If it weren't for the white man they would be on foot. Thank you.
@@davidleatherneck welcome...
I am Shoshone, our Tribe is closely associated with the Comanche Tribe. We were once 1Tribe, and have made our connection to them. If you’re familiar with the Lewis & Clark Journal, it states at Shoshone village in Idaho when the Shoshone we’re going to hunt antelope Clark or Lewis noticed some horse tack made with silver. Shoshone said they got it from their brothers who lived at a distance. Continue. This tell us that the Shoshone & Comanche are one or Brothers.
Shoshone & Comanche speak same language.
Shoshone we’re one of the first Tribes to have horses. We got our horses from Comanches because we have always maintained contact with them. Other Tribes got horses by trade or war with the Shoshone.
Greetings to you Native Woman!
Thank the colonizers for horses
@@notwaiting9239 yes! I agree with you. It is miss pronounced by people who are unsure of the pronunciation. We do call ourselves Shoshonee.
Thank you for doing the video my Grandmother was full Comanche. I am surprised you did not bring up Quanah Parker in this and what he did for the Comanche.
Exactly! You can't discuss the Comanche history without including Quanah Parker!
I'm Mexican and North American and African tribes were always so cool to me especially Aztecs and Comanche so badass
😂 sure
My great grandfather
I literally used to live right next to Quanah, TX that was nss as med and founded by Quanah Parker.
Such a very incredible video I love it it’s awesome more fun adventures and more great stories
Loved watching westerns growing up as a little girl. Cowboys and Indians lol. Dances with wolves featuring Kevin Costner is a an old classic. It’s been a while and now feel like watching it.
I’m Tuscarora and love hearing about the history of all Native American tribes
Did you know Ted Williams? AKA He who crossed the river
@@willrogan955 I did not
@@joshuabullard828 I dated his daughter for a number of years and met him several times
Ted passed away several years ago
He grew up on the reservation. He shared great stories which I enjoyed
He was a marvelous man and a great athlete I loved his humor
He wrote a book called the reservation and another one which I forgot.
I'm still friends with his grandson 30 years later
He's like his grandfather smart as a whip and an excellent athlete
@@willrogan955 that’s good and I bet he had some crazy stories about life on the reservation my uncle went and did work in reservations in North Dakota tbh I can’t recall the tribe maybe Lakota or something but it’s sad how mos true true tribes don’t exist anymore due to wars and disease , expansion, and other causes. I also went to the leader of the Iroquois nations funeral a few years back. It was amazing to see a full on native American funeral. They did a dance around a fire and had full headdresses and chest pieces it was truly awesome to see not for him dying tho ofc
Really appreciate the video as I satisfy listening while watching 😉👍
"Mistreating them in a very cruel way" must be the understatement of the century. A people who fought hard and were hard to conquer. Giving horses to the indians was a HUGE mistake.
Read about the Comanches in empire of the summer moon. Definitely an interesting tribe who stayed prehistoric yet were the most powerful tribe in the plains
GREAT BOOK! A MUST READ!!!
Yep I read that book also. The only non fiction book I’ve ever enjoyed. As to the subject matter wow was I shocked to learn how brutal and heartless they were to their captives and slaves. If you were to battle
They were a menace to other tribes and settlers and they terrorized tribes.
@@derekjackson3990
Written by a white guy?
No thanks.
I have better stories lol
-COMANCHE NATION
@@diegofonseca6708
Settlers?
Illegals you mean.
-COMANCHE NATION
Good video thanks👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I hope you keep continuing the Native American series going into the Mohawk, Cherokee, Blackfoot & all the other tribes
This is awesome. This part of my Ancestry never gets any attention
I am Micmac and Cheyenne also Irish love all my heritage and watch all videos on native Americans thank you
I am a Comanche native and love this video. Our culture runs deep and our people are strong.
Most respect to you, your elders, and your people. From your Chickahominny/Cherokee/Choctaw brother. Their was a Cherokee chief named Chief Bowles who was what was called the Old Settlers. They decided to leave the homeland and come on out west. He brought his people to Texas. Bowles was accused of helping and allowing warriors to fight for the Comanche. The Texans massacred them for it
It was the European horse that drastically changed the Comanche way of life where they became a fast moving raiding party that focused on attacking small European groups of settlers. They lost their war against cavalry.
The Comanches & other Tribes lost the war against Caucasians because they had firearms of many kind, & because there were so many to continuously fight. I always remember the lines in “Dances With Wolves” about the White eyes being so many that the situation was, negative changes were coming for Native People. Yes it was!
It was specifically Spanish horses that were brought to the Southwest where the Comanche lived. The Comanche obtained horses from them. Before other White men came into the area.
@@ellenball3335 pretty much. America would look a lot different had we had not been killed by disease pre-expansion (and during it).
The Camanche lost their war against the Calvary because the Calvary used Natives who knew where to locate the Camanche, as is most wars against Natives the Calvary used Native guides to help them locate the Natives they fought against. Taking the Camanche by surprise insured their victory. Can’t blame any Natives who fought for their homes while the Europeans move in to take whatever they wanted! It was the Spanish horse that first came to this land that made it possible for the Natives to have horses!
It took that "Calvary' a very long time to learn to fight and defeat the native warriors. They assumed native warriors knew nothing about martial arts and hand to hand combat. We primative people made it take you 300 years of warfare and We with the arrows and bows and low numbers to get to the point of forcing us onto your zoos. Living Fossils we are. Like Seattle said. After the Indians are on reservation our ancestors spirits will play with the white man's children
Great video. Oklahoman here, and member of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma. Your pronunciations of the Kiowa and Arapaho were a little off, but this is an excellent synopsis of the Comanche. Aho.
Hi, Justin! How are you doing? I hope you are fine and staying safe?
Comanches torture methods were beyond words...
To be totally fair: it wasn't as if European torture methods were any less brutal and cruel.
@@Airemelde I guess they both deserve a place on a podium.
@@Airemelde ,, This was practiced among Indian Tribes long before the Europeans showed up. We like to think all was peace an harmony among the Indian Tribe,,,, but it was not. They made war against each other.
@@davidleatherneck I'm not talking about when Europeans started invading America and what Native American did to white people and vice versa. It was more a general note on things. Comanches (and other Native American tribes) might have had some pretty nasty knowledge on how to torture people but so did plenty of other people at different times in history in different places/countries. Many humans have a tendency to be as horrible as possible to each other when given the opportunity to be.
10 Comanches versus 10 Mongolians who wins ?
To me the Comanches use of the horse was absolutely amazing one thing that people for get is that before the Spanish and other European nations brought the domesticated horse to America the native Americans didn't have a horse and once gotten the Comanche become some of the best horse people of the world
Learn your History, Horses are native to North America, the Indians already had them, more then likely the asians that crossed the pacific to come
to the americas brought them, but it’s a fact HORSES we’re already here
and yes the Native Americans , we’re ASIANS, that’s a fact also , ASIANS got here first , it’s been proven through DNA learn about Haplo group D then speak
@@davidpineda8478 north american horses went extinct 10000 yrs ago
@@jasontalbot3256 like i said do some research , don’t just cut and paste , people with brains actually do studies that prove things were they are not true, Ask any Indian they will tell you , horses were already here
kind of like Christopher Columbus discovering America -- NOT TRUE
You missed the part where they were considered some of the best archers in human history, so good in fact that the revolver was born specifically to deal with them as the rifles the settlers had werent fast enough or accurate enough to deal with the fast hit and run tactics of the Comanche so the revolver was needed just to tip the scales against the Comanche. Their archery was unique in that they trained with their bows from childhood to the point of not even having to look at their targets to hit them as the bow was like an extension of the body to them.
It wasnt the horses they were famous for, it what the archery they could do while riding, they were known to hang off the side of the horse using it as a shield while somewhat blind firing up over the horse and still hitting their marks. Sadly there is little to nothing left of these skills amongst their people now as those skills where lost after the trail of tears.
Also I believe its pronounced "Shuh-show- ni".
Also, on the topic of "slavery" with native tribes, their version of slavery is not always the same as what we imagine today(the more "old world" form). I cant speak for all tribes but for at least some slavery was more like mandatory labor while living in a with the tribe, the conditions were nothing like cotton plantations and there was usually an effort to integrate the captured slaves into members of the tribe. Whether this was the case for the Comanche I cant say but I know this was common among a various tribes. Not all tribes are the same though, take the Chinook who were known to enslave and had their own cruel caste system with the upper caste on one side of the river and the lower caste on the other side.
Thanks for posting this, the indigenous peoples here are criminally overlooked and under appreciated.
EDIT: I made a few corrections and do apologize for those mistakes. As I stated there isnt a lot of places that cover the indigenous peoples and their ways of life in great detail, what they were exceptional at, what they valued most and how they distributed resources, goods and land amongst the tribes members or if they did it at all, what the men did vs what the women did, how tribehood was determined, how tribes are related and why, how they viewed love and how they showed it, you get the idea. Part of this I suspect is due to many not wanting to share their cultures with the general public in an effort to prevent it from becoming watered down and commodified rather than understood and appreciated which I completely understand. The bigger part I imagine is due to the catastrophic loss of life between illness, genocide by foreigners and the trail of tears. To my understanding a lot was lost leaving massive holes in the knowledge of history, traditions, technical skills, arts and beliefs for most if not all the tribes to some extent.
Most sources I find offer only surface level knowledge, basic pop culture mythbusting, no they werent all more peaceful than the Europeans, yes some practiced slavery, no it wasnt identical to what was practiced in the world but it was slavery and it was dehumanizing at least until the tribe saw them as true members, no they werent always enemies with the white man as there are many stories of mountain men and western trail guides who married indigenous women and became recognized members of their tribes(though not always that simple I assume).
Thank you, now I know some more Native American history. I had never heard about the archery skills of the Comanche before. I'll have to do some more reading, or online research.
one thing you're wrong about is that the comanches never worked alongside the apaches
RM, you do know the Comanche and all other Native American tribes used to conquer and enslave one another all the time, don't you?
Same with Africa, Asia, South America. Sadly it was a way of life in the ancient world and still is today.
Man's cruelty to man never ceases.
Fought alongside Apaches? You're mistaken, friend.
It was the Comanches, specifically the Nokonis and Penatekas, which had forced the Lipans, Mescaleros and Jicarillas from the grassy plains of Texas into the deserts and canyons of New Mexico and Arizona.
Even more amazing was that they did it on Horse Back with a 14ft Lance and Shield
Imagine being an Indian warrior seeing 50 raiders on horses which you have never seen charging at you. Terrifying
The fact that they defeated the Apache, showed their prowess.
At their height the Comanche were a match for any light cavalry in the world..
I wouldn’t say defeated. There was a river line that Comanches knew not to cross out of fear of crossing Chiricahua Apache territory. Apache were one if the last tribes to surrender
There were different Apache tribes with similar but different beliefs and cultures. Never has the Comanches come into White Mountain Apache land.
@@squidy3603 i would. they pushed the apache off the southern plains. and nearly exterminated them, they were not at all scared of a tribe very much smaller than them.
@@RedHawk-z8z for mountain apache like Chiricahua, they couldn’t. In the plains sure but not in Apache territory. They wouldn’t have been able to conquer them in their own territory
It would have been amazing to see this tribe in its prime, from afar of course
Read: lords of the southern plains, empire of the summer moon, nine years among the Indians and Geronimo’s biography. Awesome reading, you can get all these books cheap on the internet. Ur welcome
Imagine if the Comanche would have had their own version of Gengis Khan they would have probably become a near unstoppable empire in the new world.
They almost were unstoppable
@@RedHawk-z8z
Not even close to what they could have become with a Gengis Khan unifying element as the Mongols had.
@@RoyCyberPunk I think what they lacked was a greater common enemy to drive them to unify and become stronger. Sadly, the arrival of the Europeans was too sudden and invasive that it did not give them enough time to adapt. If a Genghis Khan was born in the Americas at that time, it wouldn't have mattered as they were sorely behind in experience and technology. The steppe nomads had to deal with China's antics for generations from the Huns, the Gokturks, until eventually culminating to the unification of all the steppe tribes and the domination of China in the hands of the Mongols. Their isolation from the rest of the world is basically what f'ed them up.
@@notchurka3332 it would be very hard to unify the American tribes without horses or other transportation people mostly forget that
You hit the nail with the hammer! Comanche had Eucauracapa, a great statesmen and military leader. He made peace with New Mexico in 1786 and the Comanche were good for the next 100 years almost... until the Civil War and railroad came.
Now .. due to the success of the prequel PREY.. there is renewed interest in the Comanche .. heritage and culture..
I'm a Comanche, but I do feel sorry for the other tribes names they were mispronounced. It's bad enough that so many of these tribes were butchered, but now their names are butchered also. Just saying
Well. At least there’s still some of you left. Maybe you can make some content to set the record straight? Just saying
@@99fxr68 set what record straight?
People are butchered all over the world man. Dialects accents cmon man.... and butchered... don't care that they butchered Apache and other tribes?? Raping settlers
Why is europeans butchering tribes worse then the tribes butchering eachother. Just saying
@@KC-nn5wc because the natives were fighting over land that they thought belonged to them. The Europeans never had any rights to it in the first place.
Haa Ura ! good presentation🦅
Horses I love these stories 🤗😍
Beautiful vídeo.
They nearly annihilated the Apaches and terrorized the Pawnees, Osages, Arapaho like Huns and offered very little culturally compared to sedentary tribes. If Americans and Europeans are told to no longer see the conquering of the Americas with pride, I am not sure why native Americans would see the Comanche as a good example of their virtues.
This sentiment is so weird, it's exactly like the whole "he was no angel" thing. It's using the brutality that native tribes used on each other to justify their almost complete destruction (genocide really)
As if Europeans hadn't been slaughtering each other for milenia
@@Briskies702 You missed the point: if Europeans should be ashamed of conquering the Americas, why should native Americans be proud of their military prowess between themselves? It's called hypocrisy and a double standard.
Great video!
The Comanche were the most feared tribe by other Indian tribes as well. In fact , the US government and other Indian tribes worked together to stop the Comanche
Really good short history lesson 👍
so basically they were theiving murderers and we wonder why the settlers called them savages.
The settlers were savages too
@Bradley Wildman Not like the Comanche.
@@Justin-pe9cl what caused them to act that way? Was it bc the settlers were friendly and hospitable people?
@@RedHawk-z8z not to justify the settlers, but the Comanches were never known as a friendly tribe by their neighbours.
Would love to see a vid on the tribes that were exterminated or almost exterminated by other native american tribes. And which tribes did most of the exterminating.
I really. Can't. Thank you enough for your wonderful videos. They are awesome.
Hello, Margaret! How are you doing? I hope you are fine and staying safe?
You should read the book 'Blood Moon' f😊❤or an enlightening expose'
of the Commanche's history.
I’m second generation British but British nonetheless, so am used to feeling bad watching history videos. The treatment of the Native Tribes and them being stripped of the pride, lied to and decimated by our diseases. It’s heart breaking. Genocide is so unacceptable and yet again and again it happens.
I feel the same as an American too.
It's happened all over the world since human history began. Strong vs the weak. That maybe slowly changing as we evolve but it hasn't stopped yet.
@@russell5078084 war is more complicated than that at times. Desperation and revolution spring to mind. Many times the weaker side prevailed when it came to defending their homes.
@@patsysadowski1546 that latter is usually due to a great deal of luck. The perfect example of what I said would be the aztecs vs the Spanish conquistadors.
The Native Americans were meaner to one another than the white man ever had time to be to them. We just had one unknown factor that they couldn't deal with - disease. Small Pox, as everyone knows, killed more Indians than anything.
Whose artwork is featured on this channel? Absolutely amazing.
Didn't mention the fact they're not a federally recognized tribe. Kind of a big deal for natives.
That’s because they were legitimate combatants to the US federals and committed atrocities against captured citizens. Hence, people of the time had no political will to offer them land and recognition.
Yes they would love to be recognized by their conquerors that they hate lol.
Except they are federally recognized, just that they don't have a ''rez'' doesn't mean that they are not recognized
Could someone advise me what to read about the general battle between Apaches and and Comanches? It seems to me that Apaches at first were more powerful and then Comanches get stronger and took revenge... and Apaches liked to attack from an ambush while Comanches prefer a cavalry rides and attacks. In Europe Apaches are more known because of Karl May books "Winnetou" and "Old Surehand" In these books Apaches were like good guys and Comanches - bad guys... But if we would speak about tortures, I think both of tribes were very inventive :) ( At the moment I'm reading "Empire of the Summer moon") Nice video, thanks.
This is well done but I sure wish you would leave off the music. It is very distracting and makes it harder for us older folks to hear the words.
Hello, Diane! How are you doing? I hope you are fine and staying safe?
Brilliant video sir.
Not a single mention of any of their final war Chiefs like Nocona, Potsana Quip, or even Quanha Parker.
That's chapter two.
Great video I really enjoyed it very much. I do have a question though.?? Where did you find the artwork for your video?? It's fabulous!!
Even though I am a Caucasian female, I find Native American customs extremely interesting! Most native tribes treated people way better than the Europeans that were coming to “civilize“ them. I liked the part that you talked about how they used to bury their dead. However, do you, or anybody know of any videos that talk about other cultural customs? Such as marriage, childbirth, training men and women etc? Thank you for this video I really do appreciate it! Thank you! I hope the natives never lose all of their culture.
Look up Haida Gwaii and the Haidas. It should be a good read. The Haida are from the Pacific Northwest Ocean near Alaska.
Well they sorta did civilize them. They didn't even have the wheel
You do realize that they treated each other as brutally or worse than the Europeans treated them, right? They were especially keen on torturing captives, and had no mercy on women or children.
Well they didn’t treat everyone great. They did torture many people to death. But it was definitely a very interesting culture
@@mohnjarx7801 what did they need wheels for? They weren't cave people 😂
Sahtu Dene in Canadas western arctic still burn the possessions of the dead . Anything they touched clothing beds skidoos etc . Every sahtu Dene community has a area where you will find dozens and dozens of grave goods burnings
Its not pronounced "show-shone". Its pronounced "show-shone-ee".
They were a super power and an empire. The comancheria was really feared.
Godbless the Texas rangers that took care em!
Texas Red
Gorgeous art!
I'm from New Mexico and I've never heard anyone pronounce Arapahoe the way you do. It hurts my ears.
Hahah I burst out laughing when he said the too !!
The Commanches were the inspiration for the "Dothraki Screamers" of the great grass sea in the game of thrones
Drifting goose [ Magabobdu] the mystic warrior was the last free Dakota sioux to lead Dakota sioux raids. During the 1870's against the settlers and the rail road survivors. Iin the James River Valley north of Redfield county SD untouched land. The american settlers called the Dakota sioux leader the notorious drifting goose. Angered the US government and the US army made drifting goose leave his land! Finally spring of 1880 the Dakota sioux leader led the last free proud hunkpati Dakota sioux to the crow creek sioux Indian reservation at old Fort Thompson SD were his descents live today. Drifting goose can speak Dakota- Nakota- Lakota- English and German language. Drifting goose will become one of the five Dakota sioux leaders [ chiefs] of the crow creek sioux sioux Indian tribe.
Interesting but what does that have to do with the Commanche?
Drafting goose was the plains Indian chief who tried to hold to his territory. Will the white settlers came in thousands to claim his land! When the white people took over Drifting goose log cabin he and his family had to live in Burch berk tipi his young son died of sickness. He was sioux Indian east of Missouri River trying to keep white people off his land. Drifting goose finally give up in 1880 after everything wasn't going his way.
@@blackbetsy59 but comanche fought one last war not against the us military. But the Buffalo hunters war of 1876 - 1877 led by black horse not as bloody as the great sioux war sittingbull's war the same. time. But the great sioux war lasted too may of 1877 crazy horse surrender at Fort Robinson and the battle of lame deer and crazy horse death in September 3 1877 and fastbulls surrender at Fort Robinson 30 September. The campaigns against sittingbull of 1879 - 1881 bearcoat miles largemilitary forces with crow Indian scouts attack three hundred hunkpapa Lakota sioux hunting bands led by sittingbull. The battle of the milk River July 17th 1879 forcing sittingbull into Canada. The hunkpapa war party attack a haycuuters on the powder River on January 30 1880 the tongue River tributary to the punkin creek. The battle of the pumpkin creek February 7th - 8th 1880 a company of us soldiers and crow scouts fought sittingbull's hunkpapa Lakota war party there. The battle of the popular river January 2nd 1881 us soldiers crossed the frozen river then opened fire with their powerful weapons over an hour. The hunkpapa- Oglala Lakota sioux encampment escape north to the surrounding hills also near the Canadian border. A woman was screaming to end the fighting she was hit by a bullet later died of her wounds. Eight innocent Lakota people were killed on the battle field! Finally the Lakota sioux surrendered chief gall look like a old Roman General when he handed his weapon to the American commander. The us soldiers made the poor Lakota sioux people walk over twenty miles in sub zero temperatures to fort Burford ND were they became prisoners of war. A decade before the wounded knee massacre dec 29 1890 when Custer old seventh calvery regiment killed thirty five hunkpapa Lakota and chief Bigfoot's minneaconjou Lakota band. A cold sad day to remember.
Whose work are these incredible paintings?
0:57 why are the Spanish always referred to as Conquistadors and the English as Colonist when both had the same objectives? The Spanish in New Mexico had developed trade relations with the Comanches so strong that even when the American Conquistadors from Eastern US began using the Santa Fe trail (and eventually using it to invaded and conquered The Southwest US) Comanches would attack American traders but would leave the Spanish traders alone. This trade pact would remain in affect until the American Conquistadors eventually subjugated the Comanche nation and drove it into ruin.
Colonist/colonizer is seen as an insult in 2022 Conquistador has a certain romanticism... I'd rather be called a Conquistador to be honest.. It's also very rare for hispanics to be blamed for all the crimes of the past yet the Northern European is still having to apologize for acting no worse than Spanish colonizers of the new world..
Basically because it means conquerors. The spanish went into the unknown found a civilization and conquered it. Their plan was to plunder and run to their country as wealthy men. Not settle. The settlers went with the objective of making a small town free from the government. At least more free than other parts of the country.
the spanish are called conquistadores because they came first and started to conquer. the english came after not to conquer but to escape persecution in europe so english seen as colonists.
I think the Spanish called themselves conquistadors?
@@trinihammer Some came for that reason, others remained loyal to the crown.
I am Comanche on my mothers side. I feel proud to have the blood of such fierce warriors in my veins
Please if your going to do videos of native history Please learn correct pronunciation of places and tribes
3:48 what was their burial ceremony before they had horses?
A violent agressive and savage tribe whose 'culture" and "way of life" was essentially just a Eurasian nomadic horse archer lifestyle akin to the Huns, Scythians, or Mongols. They're not that unique.
It still shows how even a people with a relatively set way of life can change drastically due to the introduction of horses.
@@stinkyklink Yeah, they their entire lifestyle, they weren't even a plains people before
I'm Apache descent, and I feel such awe towards the Comanche despite their terrorism against the Apache. The Comanche have my disgruntled respect for thwarting off colonialism for a long time.
The video is very informative and has awesome pictures, but the mispronounced names of the Native American tribes is cringe worthy...
And I'm white!
I'm going from memory, but weren't these the dudes that raided so far South into Mexico that they saw monkeys, and described them as little humans or something like that?
A little practice pronouncing these tribal names would have given this video far more validity.
Exhausting... I'm sure you say everything correctly
@@KC-nn5wc It's not hard to show proper respect to people.
You should do a video of the Navajo.
Good video but you're are pronouncing a few of the tribes incorrectly
I got more respect for a native speaker telling about the Native American history more than any other race but it’s nice to see the history of fellows natives around America finally heard and somewhat Understood it’s a good video other than the mispronunciations
The pronunciations of the tribes is embarrassing.
Comanche were so incredible. They had an empire on the plains on par with those of the Turkic and Mongol peoples! Great video!
A gross exaggeration, the Comanche didn’t even come close to the mongols. Their empire was much smaller, their military was much weaker, and their legacy much smaller than the mongols.
If the Comanche ever fought the mongols they would be destroyed.
The revolver was not invented to combat the Indian it was a useful tool for sure but the Indian quickly became more powerful as they used them themselves but the fighting abilities of the young braves is spot on the were masters in their use of the horse and they had no match whatsoever with their bow incredible warriors but the revolver pistol was invented for many reasons but specifically for the defense of the Indian warriors is simply not accurate
Glen, do a little research on the Walker Colt. It was designed for the Texas Rangers to combat the Comanche. It worked. It helped even the odds against the devastating Comanche bow and arrows. They were the true lords of the southern plains.
There native Americans Indians are from India
my great grandpa was one of the 17 comanche elite code talkers great how you put that pic at the end
The code of WWII that was never broken by Japanese was from Navajo Soldiers.
Umm that's cool but I'm pretty sure your right about that but I was talking about that last pic and we were at D Day of WWII
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Only reference or acknowledgement of Code Talkers I've known, was from the Nicholas Cage movie Wind Talkers about the Navajo Soldiers. Had no idea of other Native Americans involved in Code language, especially in the European Theater. Your Grandfather along with the rest deserve proper acknowledgement for their contributions, you should be proud!
The “shizone”….. makes it hard to take anything else he says seriously when he doesn’t even pronounce shoshone correctly.
You say everything correctky
🗽GOOD MORNING
Shoh-shoh-nee and uh-RAP-uh-hoh. Use a dog gone dictionary for once!
You say everything right?
@@KC-nn5wc nope, that's why I have a dictionary app.
I wonder if I'm not the only one watching this after seeing the movie Pray
Would have loved to been a Comanche at this time.
Lol no you wouldn’t.
They were were a very powerful and spectacular tribe. I'd say they killed more white men than any other tribe in history. Hands down.
@@RedHawk-z8z That’s why I said I’d go back in a minute.
Interesting note: although there were horses in N. America in ancient times, ancient times, every modern horse is derived from ancient Asian steppe horses.
Still calling Native Americans Indians I see . I might as well call Europeans , Somalians and East Asians Danes🙄
I noticed that too 😅
Also, the buffalo weren't from Buffalo.
Hmmm, I was always under the impression the Indians preferred 'Native American Indians'.
get used to the term Indian
,,, Maybe that should have been corrected about 250 years ago.
Boozhoo niijjii. Miigwetch "AHO". 🤙🏽🤙🏽
They are badass I just saw the documentary about their women killing predators, so badass.
Comanche checking in!
Amazing ilustrations in the video...Anyone knows the source?
Prey brought me here 🤙🏻
I have an honest question that can't seem to be answered..
If America gave back the land, to which tribe would it go.
The original tribe, or the tribe that took it from the other?
Beautiful history
I'm a Comanche Indian 63 winters on mother earth and praying and meditating to mother for decades people are so disconnected from mother earth know in the government not talking about it you see it and hear about it and do nothing ! Think about like this every day is worst than the last day 🤬😡 one half of the country will be flooded and tornado like f-15 f20 and the other side will be wildfires droughts volcano 🤬 so we need to be thinking about growing are own food for Americans please believe and share 🙏😡
Should check out The NZ Land Wars, the English came with the biggest arsenal in the Empires history and still couldn't defeat my people ( Maori), mystified as to how all there cannons had no effect on our villages, they soon discovered our secret was well constructed trenches behind the fences of our Pa (forts), hence, Europeans first time they encountered trench warfare early 1800's, which was then utilized in World War 1, this is only one of many ingenious tactics used by my people to nullify the advantage of firearms, because we didn't have long range weaponry, we were also masters of Guerilla warfare, I believe the NZ wars were covered up because the British couldn't accept being out thought by a bunch of savages with Taiaha (Spears), Patu (clubs), little more than a handful of guns
I love how they were described as the ugliest, slovenly, and foulest look humans you would ever set eyes on until they mounted their horses and suddenly transformed into the most graceful and beautiful of any horsemen.
amazing artwork those paintings. Would like to know the names of the painters.