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Comanche
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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Co·man·che
/ kəˈmanchē/
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n.
(pl. same or -ches
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a member of an American Indian people of the southwestern U.S. The Comanche were among the first to acquire horses (from the Spanish) and resisted white settlers fiercely.
2.
the Uto-Aztecan language of this people.
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adj.
of or relating to this people or their language.
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Comanche Society: Before the Reservation
Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...views of contemporary Comanches. The author discusses first Comanche kinship and social structure concluding that Comanches had "clans." His ulterior...untenable statements. On Comanche social organization: "Comanches inherited the clan name...
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COMANCHES USE HORSES TO FIGHT DRUGS
News Wire article from: United Press International; 6/8/2001; 700+ words
; ...dedicated group of Comanches, the Indian people...housing. "I want our Comanche children to reconnect...author of "The Last Comanche Chief: The Life...of the world." Comanches rode on raids as...by truck to the Comanches in Oklahoma last...Now a handful of Comanche wranglers, led...
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Comanches use horses to fight drugs.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 6/8/2001; 700+ words
; ...dedicated group of Comanches, the Indian people...housing. "I want our Comanche children to reconnect...author of "The Last Comanche Chief: The Life...of the world." Comanches rode on raids as...by truck to the Comanches in Oklahoma last...Now a handful of Comanche wranglers, led...
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Comanche is coming
Magazine article from: Soldiers; 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...the OH-58 Kiowas, the Comanche is Army aviation's first...manufacturers participate in the Comanche program. Under the current plan, 1,292 Comanches will replace 3,100 Vietnam...fielded in 2006. About the Comanche The Comanche is designed...
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Comanche: Leading the Army's transformation
Magazine article from: Army AL & T; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Introduction On April 4, 2000, the RAH-66 Comanche Program completed a successful Milestone...to this was the realization that the Comanche is on the cutting edge of the Army...across the full spectrum of conflict. Comanche designers got it right this time. By...
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Comanche faces tests on its value to warfighters.(RAH-66 Comanche helicopter)(includes related article on OH-58D Kiowa Warrior and AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter capabilities)
Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 6/12/1995; ; 700+ words
; In a future battle, RAH-66 Comanche armed scout helicopters will fly...and digital communication links, Comanche in 10 seconds will identify targets...location and precise target data. Comanche's odds of surviving dangerous missions...
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Comanche Society: Before the Reservation.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to understand why the Comanches acted as they did during...accounting of what the Comanches did. Gerald Betty contends that "understanding Comanche social organization...geographical mobility of the Comanche people. Most historians...long contended that the Comanches migrated onto the ...
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 "The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Comanche code a well-kept secret used in Normandy D-Day invasion.
Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 6/18/2002; 700+ words
; ...the only living Comanche "code talker...including the Comanches, served as code...couldn't say in Comanche, so we had to improvise...Pearl Harbor, the Comanches were dispersed among...entrusted to the Comanches, said William Meadows...first book on the Comanche code talkers...
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Comanche Clean Energy Closes $85 Million Round of Financing.
PR Newswire; 7/21/2008; 700+ words
; ...Brazil, July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Comanche Clean Energy ("Comanche" or the "Company") today announced that it...transactions will be to increase the book equity of Comanche from approximately $30 million to approximately...
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FIRST COMANCHE HELICOPTER PROTOTYPE UNVEILED
PR Newswire; 5/25/1995; 700+ words
; ...Century when the first prototype RAH-66 Comanche helicopter was unveiled here today...event was a significant milestone in the Comanche Program, which will provide the Army...and industry representatives that the Comanche "represents a revolution in the application...
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Comanche
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...reference to the Comanches appears in a Spanish...from 1706. The Comanche earlier separated...century. In 1969 Comanches formed a sovereign...government, the Comanche Nation, separate...Settlements The nomadic Comanches did not maintain...
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Quanah Parker
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...coincided with major changes in Comanche life, as American settlement...Cynthia had become completely Comanche, and she mourned for her...taller and thinner than other Comanches, with a lighter complexion...himself to be unquestioningly Comanche in his beliefs and way of...
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Sanapia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Sanapia Sanapia (1895-1979) was a Comanche medicine woman whose healing practices...impossible to trace the origin of the Comanche tribe, there are indications that it...turned east and south and became the Comanche. Sanapia, whose Christian name was...
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Apache Wars
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Comanches. Forced by the Comanches into present-day Oklahoma...they battled the powerful Comanches. Faced with the fierce Comanches in Coahuilla and Texas, the...colonists from Apache and Comanche raiders, but as late as 1786...
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Kiowa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Hills, they were forced to move south to Comanche territory; in 1790, after a bloody...Kiowa reached a permanent peace with the Comanche. According to Lewis and Clark, the...Kiowa, who allied themselves with the Comanche, raided as far south as Durango, Mexico...
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