In 1836, a 9-year-old pioneer girl named Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped during a Comanche raid in North Texas. She was strapped onto the back of a horse and taken north, back into the Plains where ...

FORT SILL, Okla., Nov. 10, 2016 -- History can be ironic. Native American children in the early to mid-20th century were taken from their homes and taught in boarding schools which tried to erase all ...

DEC. 1, 1916 -- DONECaptain H. B. Hicks, aged 73 years, chief of the Comanche Indians and a lecturer, poet and songwriter, is visiting in Texarkana for a few days while resting on his journey from San ...

Purdue women's basketball guard Kiki Smith finds inspiration as a member of the Comanche tribe and All-Native club team in Oklahoma.

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The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Johnny Depp has been made an honorary member of the Comanche tribe. Depp is in New Mexico, shooting the film adaptation of "The Lone Ranger." He plays "Ranger" sidekick Tonto ...

Quanah Parker was the last chief of the Comanches — and the son of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was captured as a child by the Comanches. This story was originally broadcast on June 23, 2010. Empire of the ...

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...