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Everything Will Be Changed: the Horse and the Comanche Empire Everything Will Be Changed: The Horse and the Comanche Empire Stephen Kwas Senior Division Historical Paper Word Count: 2474 “Remember this: if you have horses everything will be changed for you forever.”1 - Attributed to Maheo, Creator God of the Cheyenne Bones of over 1,000 horses lay bleaching under a hot Texas sun, months-old remnants from the last stand of one of the greatest equestrian powers in history: the Comanche. Spanish horses allowed for the Comanche and other tribes of the Great Plains, who had lacked horses for over 15,000 years, to transform their societies. Upon its arrival, the Comanche immediately capitalized on the horse and used it to break the barrier of human physiology—the limits of human endurance which significantly restricted hunting, raiding, and trading—and created a vast trade empire. Many have romanticized this history by arguing that the horse was beneficial to all Comanches.2 This paper, however, argues that the horse brought wealth and power to some Comanches, but also brought slave markets, marginalization of women, constant warfare, and social stratification to their society. The tragic irony was that the horse, the very technology that allowed them to conquer their environment, eventually destroyed the ecological balance of the Plains and made them vulnerable to American invasions. Pedestrianism: Life before the Horse Before European contact, Plains Indians relied on farming as much as hunting and often oscillated between the two.3 Although the bison served as their main source of food, Plains 1 Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin, Plains Indian Mythology (New York, NY: Meridian, 1975), 96. 2 For a classic example of this romantic interpretation, see: Clark Wissler, “The Influence of the Horse in the Development of Plains Culture,” American Anthropologist, n.s., 16, no. 1 (January/March 1914): 1-25. 3 Elliott West, telephone interview by the author, Stoughton, WI, February 3, 2020; John D. Speth, “Some Unexplored Aspects of Mutualistic Plains-Pueblo Food Exchange,” In Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists: Interaction between the Southwest and the Southern Plains, ed. Katherine A. Spielmann (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1991), 31-33; Katherine A. Spielmann, Interdependence in the Prehistoric Southwest: An Ecological Analysis of Plains-Pueblo Interaction (New York: Garland Publishing, 1991), 240. For the use of domesticated dogs by early Comanches, see: Thomas W. Kavanagh, The Comanches: A History, 1706-1875 (Lincoln, NE: University of 1 tribes frequently built their settlements near rivers to provide the best conditions for crops to grow; far from the prairies where bison foraged.4 Hunting bison was dangerous and required Indians to run next to the animal, and they were often trampled by the herds.5 Hunts also required a great deal of planning, needed many hunters, and regularly failed.6 When they succeeded, however, one hunt could supply a Plains community for months. Because of the communal nature of these hunts—hundreds of Indians would participate in a single hunt—the supplies were distributed more or less equally among the participants.7 Plains Indians used dogs to transport bison products, which weighed thousands of pounds, back to their settlements.8 Dogs, however, were inefficient in transportation and limited a tribe’s hunting, raiding, and trading capabilities. They could only carry up to fifty pounds of tradeable material, and could not travel more than six miles a day. They were also carnivores, meaning that they required the same food as their owners during times of famine.9 Nebraska Press, 1996), 67; Retta Murphy, "The Journal of Pedro De Rivera, 1724-1728," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 41, no. 2 (October 1937): 133, accessed April 6, 2020, https://digital.library.txstate.edu/bitstre- am/handle/10877/3848/fulltext.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. 4 Elliot West, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998), 38, 40. 5 George C. Frison, Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains, ed. James Bennett Griffin (San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1991), 211-234; West, The Contested Plains, 34-35, 39: West gives examples of early Plains hunting methods such as the Bison Stomp—a hunting method where Indians would chase bison a considerable distance until they reached a cliff, where the bison would fall to their deaths; for other hunting methods such as bowhunting, see: Gerald Betty, Comanche Society: Before the Reservation (College Stadium, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2002), 82. 6 Eleanor Verbicky-Todd, Communal Buffalo Hunting among the Plains Indians: An Ethnographic and Historical Review, ed. David Burley (Alberta: Alberta Culture Historical Resources Division, 1984), 7 Thomas W. Kavanagh, telephone interview by the author, Stoughton, WI, March 13, 2020; Thomas W. Kavanagh, "Political Power and Political Organization: Comanche Politics, 1786-1875" (PhD diss., The University of New Mexico, 1986), 27-28, accessed March 17, 2020, 154, https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi- ?article=1157&context=anth_etds; Kavanagh, The Comanches, 57-58; for an excellent illustration of the communal nature and success of pedestrian hunts, see: Joe Ben Wheat, "A Paleo-Indian Bison Kill," Scientific American 216, no. 1 (January 1967): 44-53, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24931373.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A25d551b2b918- 11a888263dac103bacd8; and Verbicky-Todd, Communal Buffalo Hunting, 121. 8 Betty, Comanche Society, 90-91; see also: West, The Contested Plains, 34-35. West explains that Spanish conquistadors described Plains Indians as bands of hunters who traveled using dogs. 9 John Canfield Ewers, The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture: with Comparative Material from Other Western Tribes (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955), 307; Pedro de Rivera, Diario y Derrotero de lo Caminado, Visto y Observado en la Visita Que Hizo a los Presidios de la Nueva España Septentrional el Brigadier Pedro de Rivera (n.p., 1945), 78-70; Pedro Castañeda, The Coronado Expedition, 1540- 2 Three Equestrian Worlds Collide: The Horse and the Jumano, Apache, and Comanche The first horses arrived in the Great Plains in 1600, traveling with Spanish conquistadors to New Mexico.10 The colonists kept horses far from Indians because, in 1568, King Philip II signed into law that, “Indians may not ride horseback…without exception.”11 The Spaniards recognized that Indian equestrianism would challenge their colonial occupation of the Plains and tried to minimize Indian knowledge of the horse with this law.12 Ironically, the Spanish taught Plains Indians how to use horses. Many Spanish settlers forced enslaved Indians to tend to Spanish horses, teaching the Indians how to use a horse.13 Recognizing that horses could bring them freedom, enslaved Indians escaped on horseback to nearby tribes, bringing with them their knowledge of horsemanship.14 Because of this 1542 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896), 527; Frank C. Lockwood, The Apache Indians (New York, NY: Macmillan, 1938; Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1987), 9; West, The Contested Plains, 42, 51-52; Kavanagh, The Comanches, 67. 10 Wissler, “The Influence of the Horse,” 1; Pekka Hämäläinen, "The Rise and Fall of Plains Indian Horse Culture," The Journal of American History 90, no. 3 (December 2003): 835; West, The Contested Plains, 34-35; West, The Contested Plains, 49; see: Elliott West, “The Impact of Horse Culture,” History Now, no. 28 (Summer 2011): accessed November 14, 2019, https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/journals/2011-06/american- indians. West explains that the horse’s early ancestor, the hyracotherium, lived in the Great Plains 30 million years ago. These proto-horses then migrated to Europe during the Ice Age, evolving into modern horses while their cousins in America died out. In this way, the horse’s arrival in America was a sort of homecoming for the horse. In another sense, they left America wild and free and returned subdued and with humans. 11 Francis Haines, "The Northward Spread of Horses among the Plains Indians," American Anthropologist, n.s., 40, no. 3 (July/September 1938): 429-430, accessed October 14, 2019, https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/aa.1938.40.3.02a00060. For the law banning Indians from owning horses, see: S. Lyman Tyler, ed., The Indian Cause in the Spanish Laws of the Indies, research report no. 16, Western Civilization and Native Peoples (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah, 1980), 86. 12 Jake Page, Uprising: The Pueblo Indians and the First American War for Religious Freedom (Tucson, AZ: Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2013), 165; West, “The Impact of Horse Culture.” For an example of the Spanish trying to keep knowledge of the horse from Plains Indians, see: Don Thomas Velez Cachupin to Don Francisco Marin del Valle, "Copy of the Instruction Which Don Thomas Velez Cachupin, Governor and Captain General of New Mexico, Left to His Successor, Don Francisco Marin del Valle, at the Order of His Most Excellent Sir, Conde de Revilla Gigedo, Viceroy of this New Spain," 1754, in Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications, ed. Alfred Barnaby Thomas and George P. Hammond, trans. Alfred Barnaby Thomas, vol. 11, The Plains Indians and New Mexico, 1751-1778: A Collection of Documents Illustrative of the History of the Eastern Frontier of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1940), text-fiche, 11:133. 13 Betty, Comanche Society, 86. 14 Haines, "The Northward Spread,"
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