Comanche

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The Comanche (), or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ, 'the people'), are a Native American people from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today primarily belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma. The Comanche language is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family. Originally, it was a Shoshoni dialect, but diverged and became a separate language. The Comanche were once part of the Shoshone people of the Great Basin, diverging linguistically and culturally after adopting a nomadic horse culture in the early 18th century. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Comanche became renowned as some of the finest cavalry in history, utilising mobility and bison hunting to build a vast sovereign territory across present-day northwestern Texas, eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and western Oklahoma - an empire known to colonists as Comanchería. Rather than a single centralized state, Comanche society...

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