DNA reveals truth about Native Americans

Chief Quanah Parker. Kwahadi

(BE) The Comanche (Shoshone) were never what we were taught -- ancient DNA evidence finally reveals

The Comanche (/kəˈmæntʃi/) or Nʉmʉnʉʉ ("the people" [3]), are an Indigenous or Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States of America.

Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma [4].

The Comanche language is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family. Originally, it was a Shoshoni dialect, it is thought, but it diverged and became a separate language [5].

Comancheria (Comanche Nation, 1770-1850)

Comanche meeting U.S. dragoons, 1834

The Comanche were allegedly once part of the Shoshone people of the Great Basin [6]. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Spanish and later Mexican colonists called the Comanche domain Comanchería. Some historians call it an empire.

The Comanche lived in present-day northwestern Texas and adjacent areas in eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and western Oklahoma, where they practiced a nomadic horse culture... More