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Comanche Wars

1830s-1880s

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Comanche Wars

Texas vs Comanche Indians for West Texas

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Comancheria:
Comanche Territory

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The Comanche used the buffalo for everything

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Texans kill buffalo to starve Comanche

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Indian Reservation

Small land where Indians were forced to move to

Assimilation

Changing people's culture to be like yours

Assimilation = Similar

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Texas defeats Comanches and forces them into Reservations

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Destroyed Indian tribe culture

-Only individuals were sold land, not the entire tribe

Infertile lands

Land given to Indians has poor soil

Indians forced to farm but were more used to hunting

Extreme poverty

Indians were given no money to assimilate