A military campaign launched by the U.S. Army in 1874, the objective was to remove the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indian tribes from the Southern Plains and force their

Like their counterparts in the north, the Southern Plains tribes' way of life depended definitively upon the buffalo. They used virtually all of the animal for food, tools, shelter, clothing, sacred

Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek tells the tragic story of the southern bands of Cheyennes from the period following the Treaty of Medicine Lodge through the battles and skirmishes known as the Red

Ever since the summer of 1874 the Comanche, Cheyenne and Kiowa had sought refuge in Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle. There they had been stockpiling food and supplies for the

The Comanches were led by Isa-tai and Quanah Parker. Despite being outnumbered, the hunters repelled the Comanche assault. After a four-day siege, reinforcements arrived and increased the garrison to

The Second Battle of Adobe Walls was fought on June 27, 1874 between Comanche forces and a group of twenty-eight U.S. bison hunters defending the settlement of Adobe Walls, Texas in what is now

During the winter, a spiritual leader named Isa-tai (White Eagle) emerged among the Quahadi Band of Comanches. Isa-tai claimed to have the power to render himself and others invulnerable to their

Prior to the arrival of English American settlers on the Great Plains, the Comanche and other tribes lived a wide ranging nomadic existence. Beginning in the 1830s significant numbers of permanent

The Red River War was a military campaign launched by the United States Army in 1874, as part of the Comanche War, to remove the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Native American tribes

Métis means “mixed-blood” in French. When it is used with a lowercase m, the word refers to all peoples with mixed racial ancestry.