Comanche fight

jd45 · Post by **jd45** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:12 pm

Well, they mighta been scared sh*tless after their chief got killed. jd45

cubrock · Post by **cubrock** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:30 pm

Bullard4075 wrote:I thought Indians didn't fight at night.

Depends on the tribe and there were always exceptions.

Charles · Post by **Charles** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:25 pm

The Comanche had no qualms about fighting at night or leaving their dead where they lay. They would take their dead IF they could do so at no risk to themselves. Never confused the refined culture of the Northern Plains Indians with the less refined culture of the Comanche.

There are no pure bred Comanhce left in the US. What was left of them were assigned to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) where they lived and intermarried with the other tribes. You will still find folks in OK today that identify themselves as Comanche, but they are very much mixed blood people. Their culture is also a mixed culture. Just as their are no pure bred Comanche, there is no pure Comanche culture anymore.

Tribal culture all across the US has blended to a significant degree. Go to any Pow Wow and you will see it. This is not to say there is a generic culture, but there has been much blending even among the Navajo, Apache and other dwellers of the Southwest.

bogus bill · Post by **bogus bill** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:27 pm

Not to hijack or divert the thread, but its possible there arent even any full blacks in this country anymore. About 40 years ago I read a article on some real old black that claimed he remembered being inticed to get on a slave ship as a kid and claimed he was sold to a certain texan that went in the civil war. Supposedly they checked out a lot of things he remembered that proved out. Anyway he was asked what the one big difference he saw nowdays and he said that there was no full blooded negroes anymore. He said way back all of them were a lot blacker than any he see,s now. I still remember the guys name was charlie williams.
He was picking peachs high in a tree in 1950 and somebody thought he was pretty old to be doing that when he told them he was over a 100!
They dug everything up then and it was in time or life magazine or one similar.

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:26 pm

Charles,
The Mescalero of south central New Mexico have suffered far less from this than other tribes

Malamute · Post by **Malamute** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:54 am

Scott, I understand your Dad's desire to be a private person. I don't know if it's part of the reason he didn't want to letter the gun, but I don't believe that there is any way you (you could also use your name and address for the correspondance)or he would ever get any calls from anyone because you had the gun lettered. That information is private in the museum. If anyone ever got a call because of getting a gun lettered, probably nobody wold get them lettered. It would be a huge security risk for serious collectors.