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Comanche

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In the record

The United States made 7 treaties and agreements that name Comanche as a party, from Treaty of Camp Holmes with the Comanche, Wichita and others, 1835 to Jerome Agreement (Kiowa, Comanche, Apache), 1892 / Act of 1900.

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 5 cessions of land from Comanche: about 43 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 5 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Reservation of the Comanche and Kiowa in Colorado, Kansas and Texas (area 478), about 126 million acres, ceded under Kiowa and Comanche at Little Arkansas River, Kansas (1865).

The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Comanche: Medicine Lodge (1867) and Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903): allotment without the promised three-fourths consent. One court case turned on its rights: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock.

Today, Comanche Nation, Oklahoma carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

Treaty or agreementShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

The record over time

178018001850190019502000todayTreatiesJerome Agreement (Kiowa, Comanche, Apache), 1892 / Act of 1900 (1892)Treaty of Camp Holmes with the Comanche, Wichita and others, 1835 (1835)Comanche, Aionai (Hainai), Anadarko, Caddo, Lipan, Longwha (Tonkawa), Keechy (Kichai), Tahwacarro (Tawakoni), Wichita, and Waco at Council Springs, Robinson County, Texas, near the Brazos River (1846) (1846)Treaty of Fort Atkinson with the Comanche, Kiowa, Apache, 1853 (1853)Kiowa and Comanche at Little Arkansas River, Kansas (1865) (1865)Treaty of Medicine Lodge (Kiowa and Comanche), 1867 (1867)Treaty of Medicine Lodge (Kiowa, Comanche and Apache), 1867 (1867)Land takenLand of the Comanche and Kiowa in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 510) (1867)Land of the Comanche and Kiowa in Oklahoma and Texas, ceded 1867 (area 511) (1867)Promises brokenMedicine Lodge (1867) and Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903): allotment without the promised three-fourths consent (1892)In courtLone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903)

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

Names

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Self-names

Official names

Names in treaties and records

  • NemeneComanche (older transcription)

Land recorded as ceded

Comanche About 43 million acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894
  • Treaty or agreement43 million

Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.

5 cessions. Follow Comanche through the years on the map

Who is doing the work

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Connections

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Party to 7

Land recorded in this nation’s name 5, as named in the 1899 record

Named in 2

Present-day governments that carry this history 1

Sources

  1. comanchenation.com/about/page/historyunclassified
    in our native language, “Nʉmʉnʉʉ” (NUH-MUH-NUH), which means “The People"
  2. plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.na.020.htmlreference work
    Their name for themselves is Nemene, or "Our People."
  3. govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-30/html/2026-01899.htmprimary record
    Comanche Nation, Oklahoma
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