Comanche

COMANCHE, North American Indian tribe, a southern branch of the Shoshoni Indians, of the Uto-Aztecan language family, and of the Plains culture area. The Comanche left their original arid territory west of the Rocky Mountains to move to the southern Great Plains around the 15th century. Here they drove out the Apache Indians and dominated a vast area during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Comanche were the most skillful horsemen of the …

…in Comanche, a language that the enemy could not decipher. At the time, the Comanche language was only a spoken language; it had no alphabet, dictionary or textbook.1 The lone survivor of the group is Charles Chibitty of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1989, the French Government honored the survivors of the group for their important contribution with the "Chevalier de L'Order National du Merite". The United States government has not offered any special recognition for the group.