Comanches's efforts were thwarted in 1845 when the Texas legislature refused to create an official boundary between Texas and the Comancheria.
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13 Facts About Comanches
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In May 1875, the last free band of Comanches, led by the Quahada warrior Quanah Parker, surrendered and moved to the Fort Sill reservation in Oklahoma.
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Comanches had been kidnapped by the Apaches, only to escape and be rescued by the Comanches.
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Comanches campaigned for the Comanches' permission to practice the Native American Church religious rites, such as the usage of peyote, which was condemned by European Americans.
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Comanches did this in the hope of his child living a long and productive life.
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Comanches prayed that the child would remain happy and healthy.
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Comanches then lifted the child to symbolize its growing up and announced the child's name four times.
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Comanches held the child a little higher each time he said the name.
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Comanches's was very close to her mother's sisters, who were called not aunt but pia, meaning mother.
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Comanches's was given a little deerskin doll, which she took with her everywhere.
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Comanches's grandfather taught him about his own boyhood and the history and legends of the Comanche.
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Comanches eventually ranged farther from camp looking for better game to kill.
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Comanches sometimes ate raw meat, especially raw liver flavored with gall.
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