“…The Comanche were by far the most populous Indian tribe in Texas with around 20,000 members reported in 1849 to 1851, according to population estimates by Indian agent Robert Simpson Neighbors and ethnologist Frederick Webb Hodge (Kavanagh 1996). Their territory during the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries included a vast expanse of land including northeastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, western Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, and the Central Texas Hill Country (Gelo 2013). In the nineteenth century, the Comanches were comprised of six bands/divisions: Kotsotecka (Buffalo Eaters), Yamprika (Root Eaters), Kwahadi (Antelope), Nokoni (Wanderers), Penateka (Honey Eaters, Wasps), and Tenewa (Downstream People) (Gelo 2013).…”