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Comancheria, the Glossary

The Comancheria or Comanchería (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ, 'Comanche land') was a region of New Mexico, west Texas and nearby areas occupied by the Comanche before the 1860s.^[1]

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Comanche
Eastern New Mexico
Former countries of the United States
Former empires in North America
Geography of Colorado
Geography of Kansas
Geography of New Mexico
Geography of Oklahoma
Geography of Texas
Indigenous culture of the Great Plains
Texas Panhandle

Apache

The Apache are several Southern Athabaskan language–speaking peoples of the Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico.

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Apachería was the term used to designate the region inhabited by the Apache people. Comancheria and Apacheria are cultural regions, eastern New Mexico, geography of Colorado, geography of Kansas, geography of New Mexico, geography of Oklahoma, geography of Texas, great Plains, indigenous culture of the Great Plains, native American history of Colorado, native American history of Kansas, native American history of New Mexico, native American history of Oklahoma, native American history of Texas and Texas Hill Country.

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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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Arkansas River

The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River.

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Balcones Fault

The Balcones Fault or Balcones Fault Zone is an area of largely normal faulting Edwards Aquifer in the U.S. state of Texas that runs roughly from the southwest part of the state near Del Rio to the north-central region near Dallas along Interstate 35.

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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. Comancheria and Battle of Plum Creek are Comanche.

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Caddo

The Caddo people comprise the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Binger, Oklahoma. Comancheria and Caddo are native American history of Oklahoma.

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Cherokee

The Cherokee (translit, or translit) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.

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Cheyenne

The Cheyenne are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

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Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes are a united, federally recognized tribe of Southern Arapaho and Southern Cheyenne people in western Oklahoma.

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Cibolero

A Cibolero (plural: ciboleros) was a Spanish colonial (and later Mexican) buffalo hunter from New Mexico. Comancheria and cibolero are eastern New Mexico.

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Cimarron River (Arkansas River tributary)

The Cimarron River (script or script, meaning 'Salt River'; Hotóao'hé'e) extends across New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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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. Comancheria and Comanche are native American history of Texas.

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Comanche history

Comanche history – in the 18th and 19th centuries the Comanche became the dominant tribe on the southern Great Plains. Comancheria and Comanche history are Comanche.

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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. Comancheria and Comanche language are Comanche.

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Comanche Wars

The Comanche Wars were a series of armed conflicts fought between Comanche peoples and Spanish, Mexican, and American militaries and civilians in the United States and Mexico from as early as 1706 until at least the mid-1870s. Comancheria and Comanche Wars are native American history of Texas.

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Comanche–Mexico Wars

The Comanche–Mexico Wars was the Mexican theater of the Comanche Wars, a series of conflicts from 1821 to 1870. Comancheria and Comanche–Mexico Wars are native American history of New Mexico, native American history of Oklahoma and native American history of Texas.

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Comanchero

The Comancheros were a group of 18th- and 19th-century traders based in northern and central New Mexico. Comancheria and Comanchero are Comanche.

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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. Comancheria and Council House Fight are Comanche.

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Cross Timbers

The term Cross Timbers, also known as Ecoregion 29, Central Oklahoma/Texas Plains, is used to describe a strip of land in the United States that runs from southeastern Kansas across Central Oklahoma to Central Texas.

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Eastern New Mexico

Eastern New Mexico is a physiographic subregion within the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Edwards Plateau

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

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Empire

An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries".

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Goliad, Texas

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

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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. Comancheria and Great Raid of 1840 are Comanche.

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Hasinai

The Hasinai Confederacy (Caddo) was a large confederation of Caddo-speaking Native Americans who occupied territory between the Sabine and Trinity rivers in eastern Texas. Comancheria and Hasinai are native American history of Texas.

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History of New Mexico

The history of New Mexico is based on archaeological evidence, attesting to the varying cultures of humans occupying the area of New Mexico since approximately 9200 BCE, and written records.

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Imperialism

Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism).

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Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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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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Laredo, Texas

Laredo is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and seat of Webb County, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.

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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 Estacado

The Llano Estacado, sometimes translated into English as the Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas. Comancheria and Llano Estacado are great Plains.

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Manuel Armijo

Manuel Armijo (– 1853) was a New Mexican soldier and statesman who served three times as governor of New Mexico between 1827 and 1846.

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Mescalero Ridge

The Mescalero Ridge forms the western edge of the great Llano Estacado, a vast plateau or tableland in the southwestern United States in New Mexico and Texas.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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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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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Oklahoma panhandle

The Oklahoma Panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Osage Nation

The Osage Nation (𐓁𐒻 𐓂𐒼𐒰𐓇𐒼𐒰͘|Ni Okašką|People of the Middle Waters) is a Midwestern American tribe of the Great Plains. Comancheria and Osage Nation are native American history of Oklahoma.

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Pawnee people

The Pawnee are a Central Plains Indian tribe that historically lived in Nebraska and northern Kansas but today are based in Oklahoma.

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Pecos River

The Pecos River (Río Pecos) originates in north-central New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande.

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Pekka Hämäläinen

Pekka Johannes Hämäläinen (born 1967, Helsinki) is a Finnish historian who has been the Rhodes Professor of American History at the University of Oxford since 2012.

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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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Puebloans

The Puebloans, or Pueblo peoples, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices. Comancheria and Puebloans are native American history of New Mexico.

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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. Comancheria and Republic of Texas are Former countries of the United States.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.

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Sam Houston

Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution.

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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. Comancheria and San Antonio are Texas Hill Country.

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References

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

Also known as Comanche Empire, Comanche land, Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ.

, San Antonio, Santa Fe de Nuevo México, Shoshone, Tawakoni, Texas, Texas Hill Country, Texas panhandle, Texas Revolution, Texas–Indian wars, Tonkawa, United States, Ute people, Victoria, Texas, Waco people, West Texas, Wichita Mountains, Wichita people, Wyoming.

Comancheria, the Glossary

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See also

Comanche

Eastern New Mexico

Former countries of the United States

Former empires in North America

Geography of Colorado

Geography of Kansas

Geography of New Mexico

Geography of Oklahoma

Geography of Texas

Indigenous culture of the Great Plains

Texas Panhandle

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