USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which tribe of natives was considered the “Masters of the Plains” and pushed other tribes out of their homelands?
A
Caddo
B
Karankawa
C
Apache
D
Comanche
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The name Comanche is derived from a Ute word meaning “anyone who wants to fight me all the time.” The Comanche had previously been part of the Wyoming Shoshone. They moved south in successive stages, attacking and displacing other tribes, notably the Apache, whom they drove from the southern Plains .

Detailed explanation-2: -These include the Arapaho, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache (or Kiowa Apache), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Nakoda (Stoney), and Tonkawa.

Detailed explanation-3: -Decimated by European diseases, warfare, and encroachment by Europeans on Comanchería, most Comanche were forced to live on reservations in Indian Territory by the late 1870s.

Detailed explanation-4: -The name Comanche is probably from a Southern Ute word meaning “enemy, ” or more generally “stranger” or “other.” The Comanche called themselves numunuu and spoke a language related to that of the Shoshone of Wyoming and Idaho.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Rise And Fall Of The Comanche ‘Empire’ Quanah Parker, considered the greatest Comanche chief, was the son of Cynthia Ann Parker, a white pioneer woman kidnapped by a raiding party when she was a little girl.

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