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Buffalo Hump, the Glossary

Buffalo Hump (Comanche Potsʉnakwahipʉ "Erection That Won't Go Down" euphamized to "Buffalo Bull's Back") (born c. 1800 — died post 1861 / ante 1867) was a War Chief of the Penateka band of the Comanches.^[1]

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1840 in the United States
Battles involving the Comanche
Comanche people

Amorous Man

The Amorous Man (Pahayoko,,; – p. 1852) was a civil chief of the "Honey-Eaters" or Penateka band of the Comanche. Buffalo Hump and Amorous Man are 1840 in the United States, Comanche people, Native American history of Texas, Native American leaders, Native American people of the Indian Wars and Texas–Indian Wars.

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Arapaho

The Arapaho (Arapahos, Gens de Vache) are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming.

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Battle of Plum Creek

The Battle of Plum Creek was a clash between allied Tonkawa, militia, and Rangers of the Republic of Texas and a huge Comanche war party under Chief Buffalo Hump, which took place near Lockhart, Texas, on August 12, 1840, following the Great Raid of 1840 as the Comanche war party returned to west Texas. Buffalo Hump and Battle of Plum Creek are Battles involving the Comanche and Texas–Indian Wars.

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Benjamin McCulloch

Brigadier-General Benjamin McCulloch (November 11, 1811 – March 7, 1862) was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, a Texas Ranger, a major-general in the Texas militia and thereafter a major in the United States Army (United States Volunteers) during the Mexican–American War, sheriff of Sacramento County, a U.S.

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Cheyenne

The Cheyenne are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

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Chihuahua (state)

Chihuahua, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua (Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Colt Paterson

The Colt Paterson revolver was the first commercial repeating firearm employing a revolving cylinder with multiple chambers aligned with a single, stationary barrel.

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Comanche

The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Buffalo Hump and Comanche are Native American history of Texas and Texas–Indian Wars.

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Comanche language

Comanche (endonym Nʉmʉ Tekwapʉ̲) is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Comanche, who split from the Shoshone soon after the Comanche had acquired horses around 1705.

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Comanche Moon (miniseries)

Comanche Moon is a 2008 American Western television miniseries, an adaptation of the 1997 novel of the same name.

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Council House Fight

The Council House Fight, often referred to as the Council House Massacre, was a fight between soldiers and officials of the Republic of Texas and a delegation of Comanche chiefs during a peace conference in San Antonio on March 19, 1840. Buffalo Hump and Council House Fight are Battles involving the Comanche and Texas–Indian Wars.

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Cursus honorum

The paren, or more colloquially 'ladder of offices') was the sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire. It was designed for men of senatorial rank. The cursus honorum comprised a mixture of military and political administration posts; the ultimate prize for winning election to each "rung" in the sequence was to become one of the two consuls in a given year.

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Dead Man's Walk (miniseries)

Dead Man's Walk is an American epic Western adventure television miniseries starring David Arquette as Augustus McCrae and Jonny Lee Miller as Woodrow F. Call.

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Durango

Durango, officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango (Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: Korian; Nahuatl: Tepēhuahcān), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in the northwest portion of the country.

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Earl Van Dorn

Earl Van Dorn (September 17, 1820May 7, 1863) was an American major-general who started his military career as a United States Army officer and became famous for successfully leading a defense of a Native American settlement from the Comanche.

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Edward Burleson

Edward Murray Burleson (December 15, 1798 – December 26, 1851) was the third vice president of the Republic of Texas.

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Edwards Plateau

The Edwards Plateau is a geographic region forming the crossroads of Central, South and West Texas, United States.

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Eric Schweig

Eric Schweig (born Ray Dean Thrasher; 19 June 1967) is a Canadian Inuvialuk actor best known for his role as Chingachgook's son Uncas in The Last of the Mohicans (1992).

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Felix Huston

Felix Huston (1800–1857) was a lawyer, soldier, military opportunist and the first commanding general of the Army of the Republic of Texas under the Constitution of 1836.

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Fort Sill

Fort Sill is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Oklahoma City.

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Great Raid of 1840

The Great Raid of 1840 was the largest raid ever mounted by Native Americans on white cities in what is now the United States. Buffalo Hump and Great Raid of 1840 are Battles involving the Comanche and Texas–Indian Wars.

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Guadalupe River (Texas)

The Guadalupe River runs from Kerr County, Texas, to San Antonio Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, with an average temperature of.

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Handbook of Texas

The Handbook of Texas is a comprehensive encyclopedia of geography, history, and historical persons of Texas, United States, published by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).

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Iron Jacket

Iron Jacket (Puhihwikwasu'u,; born died 1858) was a Native American War Chief and Chief of the Quahadi band of Comanche Indians. Buffalo Hump and Iron Jacket are Comanche people, Native American leaders and Native American people of the Indian Wars.

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John Coffee Hays

John Coffee "Jack" Hays (January 28, 1817 – April 21, 1883) was an American military officer.

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Kichai people

The Kichai tribe (also Keechi or Kitsai) was a Native American Southern Plains tribe that lived in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.

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Kiowa

Kiowa or Cáuigú) people are a Native American tribe and an Indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries,Pritzker 326 and eventually into the Southern Plains by the early 19th century.

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Linnville, Calhoun County, Texas

Linnville, Texas was a town in the Republic of Texas, in what is now Calhoun County.

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Llano River

The Llano River is a tributary of the Colorado River, about long, in Texas in the United States.

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Lockhart, Texas

Lockhart is a city and the county seat of Caldwell County, Texas, United States.

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Lonesome Dove series

The Lonesome Dove series is a series of four Western fiction novels written by Larry McMurtry and the five television miniseries and television series based upon them.

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Mathew Caldwell

Matthew Caldwell, (March 8, 1798 – December 28, 1842), also spelled Mathew Caldwell was a 19th-century Texas settler, military figure, Captain of the Gonzales – Seguin Rangers and a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Buffalo Hump and Mathew Caldwell are Texas–Indian Wars.

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Medicine man

A medicine man (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwinini) or medicine woman (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwininiikwe) is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of Indigenous people of the Americas.

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Mirabeau B. Lamar

Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 19, 1859) was an American attorney, politician, poet, and leading political figure during the Texas Republic era.

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Mukwooru

Mukwoorʉ (based on mukua) (Spirit Talker) (died) was a 19th-century Penateka Comanche Chief and medicine man in Central Texas. Buffalo Hump and Mukwooru are Comanche people, Native American leaders, Native American people of the Indian Wars and Texas–Indian Wars.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Old Owl

Old Owl (Comanche, Mupitsukupʉ) (c. late 1780s – 1849) was a Native American Civil Chief of the Penateka band of the Comanche Indians. Buffalo Hump and Old Owl are 1840 in the United States, Battles involving the Comanche, Comanche people, Native American history of Texas, Native American leaders and Texas–Indian Wars.

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Plains Apache

The Plains Apache are a small Southern Athabaskan tribe who live on the Southern Plains of North America, in close association with the linguistically unrelated Kiowa Tribe.

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Randolph B. Marcy

Randolph Barnes Marcy (April 9, 1812 – November 22, 1887) was an officer in the United States Army, chiefly noted for his frontier guidebook, the Prairie Traveler (1859), based on his own extensive experience of pioneering in the west.

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Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas (República de Tejas), or simply Texas, was a breakaway state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.

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Robert Neighbors

Robert Simpson Neighbors (November 3, 1815 – September 14, 1859) was an Indian agent and Texas state legislator. Buffalo Hump and Robert Neighbors are Texas–Indian Wars.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.

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San Saba River

The San Saba River is a river in Texas, United States.

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Santa Anna (Comanche)

Santa Anna (circa 1800 – 1849) was a Native American war chief of the Penateka tribe of the Comanche Indians. Buffalo Hump and Santa Anna (Comanche) are 1840 in the United States, Comanche people, Native American history of Texas, Native American leaders and Texas–Indian Wars.

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Sierra Madre Occidental

The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera, that runs northwest–southeast through northwestern and western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California.

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T. R. Fehrenbach

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Tawakoni

The Tawakoni (also Tahuacano and Tehuacana) are a Southern Plains Native American tribe, closely related to the Wichitas.

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Ten Bears

Ten Bears (Comanche: Pawʉʉrasʉmʉnurʉ) (- November 23, 1872) was the principal chief of the Yamparika or "Root Eater" division of the Comanche from ca. Buffalo Hump and Ten Bears are Comanche people and Native American leaders.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Texas Rising

Texas Rising is a 2015 History Channel five-part television miniseries based on the Texas Revolution against Mexico and how the Texas Rangers were created.

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Texas Senate

The Texas Senate is the upper house of the Texas Legislature, with the Texas House of Representatives being the lower house.

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Texas State Historical Association

The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is an American nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to documenting the history of Texas.

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Treaty of Bird's Fort

The Treaty of Bird's Fort, or Bird's Fort Treaty was a peace treaty between the Republic of Texas and some of the Indian tribes of Texas and Oklahoma, signed on September 29, 1843. Buffalo Hump and treaty of Bird's Fort are Native American history of Texas.

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Victoria, Texas

Victoria is a city and the county seat of Victoria County, Texas.

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Waco people

The Waco (also spelled Huaco and Hueco) of the Wichita people are a Southern Plains Native American tribe that inhabited northeastern Texas.

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Wes Studi

Wesley Studi (ᏪᏌ ᏍᏚᏗ; born December 17, 1947) is a Native American (Cherokee Nation) actor and film producer.

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West Texas Historical Association

The West Texas Historical Association is an organization of both academics and laypersons dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the total history of West Texas, loosely defined geographically as all Texas counties and portions of counties located west of Interstate 35.

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Wichita people

The Wichita people, or Kitikiti'sh, are a confederation of Southern Plains Native American tribes.

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Yellow Wolf (Cheyenne)

Yellow Wolf or Ho'néoxheóvaestse (died 1864) was a Cheyenne Chief who led the Rope Hair group of the Southern Cheyenne. Buffalo Hump and Yellow Wolf (Cheyenne) are Native American leaders and Native American people of the Indian Wars.

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Yellow Wolf (Comanche)

Yellow Wolf (Comanche Isa-viah, spelled also “Sa-viah” and sometimes misspelled as “Sabaheit”, “Little Wolf”), Spirit Talker (Comanche Mukwooru)'s nephew and Buffalo Hump (Comanche “Potsʉnakwahipʉ” "Buffalo Bull's Back")'s cousin and best support, (born ca. Buffalo Hump and Yellow Wolf (Comanche) are 1840 in the United States, Battles involving the Comanche, Comanche people, Native American history of Texas, Native American leaders, Native American people of the Indian Wars and Texas–Indian Wars.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Hump

Also known as Poche-ha-quehip, Potsʉnakwahipʉ.

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Buffalo Hump, the Glossary

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1840 in the United States

Battles involving the Comanche

Comanche people

References