
Comanches
The History of a People
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Yen
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By:
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T. R. Fehrenbach
Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion.
Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, the Comanches were stunning orators, disciplined warriors, and the finest makers of arrows. They lived by a strict legal code and worshipped within a cosmology of magic. As he portrays the Comanche lifestyle, Fehrenbach recreates their doomed battle against European encroachment. While they destroyed the Spanish dream of colonizing North America and blocked the French advance into the Southwest, the Comanches ultimately fell before the Texas Rangers and the U.S. Army in the great raids and battles of the mid-nineteenth century. This is a classic American story, vividly and poignantly told.
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excellent
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local history
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Interesting and disturbing slice of American history
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There were so many interesting facts about their culture and how they determined a social structure dependent upon bravery and contributions made to the trial. It’s a book every high school student should read and also every adult as well.
What You SHOULD Know About the Native American Genocide.
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When the Texas Rangers were involved in the war with Mexico they were called THE DEVIL TEXANOS. SAME TACTICS AS COMANCHES rolled back Mexican resistance. The Mexican army was not afraid of the American army! No one wanted to fight Comanches or Texas Rangers for the same reasons.
TEXAS ADOPTED COMANCHE SPIRIT
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the raw truth of people that were brutal but free.
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Every American should read this in High School
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It also provides essential context for understanding how América continued to progress into the present. An exemplary quote that I felt offered a very useful puzzle piece for understanding race relations of the last century can be found in part 4, chapter 1: “Unlike the Spanish, the British-Americans were not accustomed to accepted hierarchies and legal caste or class distinctions, and this democracy actually worked ferociously against inferior peoples and cultures. Under Spanish law an Indio or negro could be enslaved while still retaining his essential humanity and certain rights before society. A people who insisted on equal, inalienable rights for all citizens, however could only subordinate non-citizens by making them into animals. Negro slaves were chattels, like livestock, under Anglo-American law. The Indians became, in effect, trespassing vermin on American soil. By the early nineteenth century, such policies had hardened into accepted law.” This type of insight can be found throughout this book for a range of topics.
Highly recommend. There is much more to say, but you will find it yourself in the book. Solid voice work also 👍
Eye opening read for American
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So intense
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Story of more than just Comanches
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