Comanche

More than a century after U.S. Indian boarding schools attempted to erase Indigenous cultures and languages, tribal nations in Oklahoma are working to reclaim and teach their languages to the youth.

HPPR Radio Readers are talking about books that explore life on the High Plains. Kent Haruf’s novel, Plainsong, gave us opportunities to consider the…

Lex Nichols:I was born and raised in Rocky Ford on the Arkansas River. My dad still has a farm there. Part of the Cherokee Trail ran through there up to…

I’m a writer in Canyon, Texas, and I’ve been asked to talk a little about this month’s Book Club Read, Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne. I love…

This month Texas Monthly published a brief feature on the Comanche Chief Quanah Parker’s headdress. The most well-known of the Comanche, Quanah’s name is…

In this age of chain restaurants and big box stores, the Dodge City Daily Globe has published an important reminder about the first people who lived in…

According to historian Barry Scobee, Comanche Chief Quanah Parker once appeared in Big Bend seeking peyote. Glenn’s Texas History Blog reports that Parker…

A giant steel Comanche arrow lands at the Wildcat Bluff Nature Center west of Amarillo on Saturday morning.The large sculpture is part of a larger project…