![]() ![]() Because horses were not found in the Americas before European contact, the indigenous peoples living in the middle of what would later become the United States had not yet encountered the animals. The trade in horses moved north from New Mexico, following well-worn indigenous trading routes that moved along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains at the point where the mountain region gradually melted into the Great Plains. They forced the Spanish out of the region, took control of an enormous number of Spanish horses, and began a lucrative horse trade. In 1680, the Pueblo Indians living in the Spanish colony of New Mexico revolted. Why, and how, did the Comanche unleash such devastation in Mexico… and by doing so unintentionally lay foundations for American conquest? The story begins a century and half before the U.S.-Mexico War, when the Comanche began to forge an indigenous empire based on dominating the trade in horses and bison hides across the Great Plains, and beyond. Army found the road to Mexico’s capital essentially wide open. Comanche warriors raided cities within a mere three-day ride of Mexico City itself. ![]() They forged war trails a thousand miles long that pushed through Mexico’s deserts, mountains and jungles. Shortly after Mexico liberated itself from Spain, Comanche war bands pushed deep into the interior of the newly independent, but war-weakened country. The Comanche had not only prevented the Spanish Empire from pushing further into what would become the United States… they had turned the Spanish colonies of New Mexico and Texas into virtual colonies of their own. The destruction of northern Mexico was the work of the indigenous masters of much of the Southwest: the Comanche. invasion got underway.”Īnd indeed, it had. In the words of historian Pekka Hämäläinen, “It was as if northern Mexico had already been vanquished when the U.S. Army marched down abandoned roads, past burned-out villages and through deserted ghost towns littered with corpses rotting in the sun. When the United States invaded Mexico in 1846, the soldiers who marched through what are today Mexico’s northern states encountered desolation. Sample and buy a CD with Christian hymns in the Comanche language.Ĭreated and Copyright 2005 by la fantôme.Image: map showing the extent of Comanche raiding into Mexico during the 1830s and 1840s, from Brian Delay’s “ War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War.” The following article is primarily based on Delay’s work, as well as Pekka Hämäläinen’s “ The Comanche Empire.” They won't warn you, they won't argue you with you. If you say anything indicating you are not a Christian, they will delete your post. If you are not a Native American, they will not welcome you. Has active forums, including a section on the Comanche language. ![]() You can practice your raw numbers here! This activity does not include Comanche special characters, so just try to imagine them in your mind.ĭedicated to the Comanche tribe. the diminutive/endearment suffix -htsi?: tuibitsi, "brave," "young man." "Comanche-people (n um u) cow." Many compounds are formed with suffixes, e.g. kuhtsu, "cow" n um ukuhtsu?, "buffalo" i.e. There are primary and compound nouns: e.g. In citation form, Comanche nouns appear with the absolutive suffix -bi: toyabi, "mountain." The suffix is discarded when the noun is inflected in any way. Language word, "that which has been spoken"Ī Comanche band (those who talk (niw un u) big)Ĭoyote (one with yellow underarms having.) I'll get a font soon and probably duplicate this page with it. If you use HTML or message board codes, you should already know how to underline things. I'm just using HTML to produce strike-outs and underlines. They are the same as the voiced vowel, but they are like whispers. Voiceless vowels are indicated by underlining. Vowels that are doubled, like in on aa, are simply pronounced at length. Otherwise, you will find an accent on the stressed syllable, just like in Spanish. Normally, the beginning of the word is stressed. ? - glottal stop, as in uh-oh (also used as traditional question mark) T - t of s top sometimes pronounced as an 'r' P - same as English, but sometimes pronounced as 'b' I would also like to start making some interactive resources for this language and get it more onto the web where people can share it. The purpose here is to put as much info as possible of the Comanche language onto one page. Learn more about the background of the language in External Links. It is a Uto-Aztecan language of the Native American Comanche tribe. Mar úawe! Comanche is an endangered language with only 850 or less native speakers, mostly the elderly. ![]()
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