Comanche, Shoshone, Snake
Sign Indian and then Snake.
The ring, winding around with machine like regularity, approached nearer and nearer with each revolution. As a warrior approached the point on the circle nearest the enemy, he dropped into the loop around his horse's neck and shot arrows from beneath the neck. If his horse was shot down, he generally landed on his feet.-Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, The Comanches, p. 257
At the core of their identity, of course, they were hunters and warriors— precisely what the white man wanted to deny them. While the Great Father and his apostles had not yet succeeded in this righteous mission, the thousand or so Comanches who took food and annuities at Fort Sill had already lost their identity as hunters. The men saw this as a form of slavery. What stories could they tell their children or grandchildren if all they did was wait at the reservation to be given food? Or, worse still, became farmers? Empire of the Summer Moon, S.C. Gwynne

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