Comanche Indians

Location

• Started in Wyoming
• Moved to the Texas and Oklahoma area
• Nomadic/ moved around the Plains

Daily Life

• Men: hunted, some cheifs and warriors, and some went to war
• Women: In charge of the house, built and carried the house from place to place
• Children: Play,learn,help around the house, tons of chores,hunting and fishing with father.
• Men and women: Storytelling,artwork,music,and medicine

Housing

• Tipi (teepees)
• Made of buffalo hide
• Made by the women
• Weren't very big
• Father,mother,children lived in the house and sometimes an elder
• Summer and winter houses
• Housing changed after colonization

Food

• Lots of Buffalo and small game.
• Ran buffalo off cliffs,shot them with bow and arrows and fished with spears.
• They ate meats,nuts,vegetables, and berries
• They only stored food in parfletches for travel.

Clothing

• Women: deer skin dresses. In the winter they wore robes over their dresses and wore moccasins.
• Men: buckskin shirts, breechcloth and leggings and a head dress. In the winter they woe robes and moccasins

Crafts

• Silver and Copper jewelry
• Bead work

Quanah Parker

• Famous Comanche leader
• Was the last Comanche cheif
• Never lost a battle to the white men

Story Telling

• Extremly important
• Told by men and women
• Fairytales about important Comanche Indian culture

Transportation

• Mainly walked
• Sometimes used something simular to a dog sled
• Rode horses (after the Europeans brought horses to America)