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READ ME, COMANCHE HISTORY CONTINUED..The Laramie (Wyoming) Peace Treaty Proceedings are critical to understanding the forces which shaped the plains territories for each tribe that occupied land there. The government wanted the Comanches to attend for one grand council, but the Comanches declined because their ally, the Kiowas would be surrounded by their enemies, the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. At those proceedings, the Sioux boasted, “We whipped the Kiowa at the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek” (late 1700 or early 1800′s). Kiowa oral history tells how the bravest stood their ground and were wiped out while the old, the women, and children escaped South to the Comanches. During the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty Proceedings, the Kiowa were told by the Commissioners to stop stealing horses, which they denied. Angered by this denial, after heavy losses to horse thieves, the Head Chief of the Comanches retorted, “When we first met you, you had dogs pulling your belongings, where did you get your horses?” This statement reverses many modern day conclusions that the Kiowa bravely fought their way into Comanche territory. Now taking their place as full allies of the Comanche (but not owning any Comanche land) the Kiowa chief Satanta declared, “All the land between the Arkansas River (in kansas) and the Rio Grande belongs to the Comanches and Kiowas.” Thus confirming the Kiowa had full rights to roam all of the Comanche lands or Comancheria and did not claim land of their own as …

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