The Comanches still live in the area around the town of Lawton. Comanche tribal enrollment now numbers 16,667 with approximately 7,763 members residing in the Lawton-Ft.Sill and surrounding areas of Southwest Oklahoma. Therefore, they lacked the normal organization that other tribes had, but somehow managed to co-exist as one of the largest tribes in Native American history. 5.1K likes. The Comanche Nation’s main headquarters is located 9 miles north of Lawton, Oklahoma. The Comanche in the 1600s moved from the mountains in the North onto the Southern Plains. A joint KCA "tribal" business committee was established, although never fully formalized, in the late 1890s. Comanche, North American Indian tribe of equestrian nomads whose 18th- and 19th-century territory comprised the southern Great Plains. The Comanche tribe has its own government, laws, police, and services, just like a small country. The Comanche tribe currently has approximately 17,000 enrolled tribal members with around 7,000 residing in the tribal jurisdictional area around the Lawton, Ft Sill, and surrounding counties. The Comanche Indians had a very interesting system of government. In the past, the Comanche tribe was made up of many different bands, and each band had its own chief who was chosen by a council of important men. The US Government got all the land that was not given to Comanche families and that was a lot of land. However, the Comanches are also US citizens and must obey American law. An allotment is like a share. The Comanche signers, mostly Yamparikas, agreed to a joint reservation in western Oklahoma and to political confederation with the Kiowa and Plains Apache (the present Apache Tribe of Oklahoma); this confederation became known as the KCA. Comanche Nation 584 NW Bingo RD Lawton, OK 73507 (Physical) PO Box 908 Lawton, OK 73502 (Mailing) Ph: (580) 492-3240 or 1-877-492-4988 Hours Of Operation The history of the Native American Comanche tribe includes their move from ancestral homelands in Wyoming to more southerly parts and conquering new lands. They were then in turn conquered, after many struggles, by invading people of European descent.
The name Comanche is derived from a Ute word meaning ‘anyone who wants to fight me all the time.’ They were one of the first tribes to acquire horses from the Spanish.
They were not a unified tribe, and thus divided into 12 different sub-tribes. Comanche Nation of Oklahoma. 500,000 acres of Comanche land was held back, but it was leased to white ranchers in 1906. This land was sold to white settlers in 1901.