A Native American activist who lives in Albuquerque has a new son, who just happens to be one of the biggest superstars on the planet.LaDonna Harris, a well-known native activist, learned Johnny Depp ...
Fort Huachuca, AZ. - In June 1944, when Comanche Indian Cpl. Charles Chibitty landed on Utah Beach in Normandy, his first radio message was to another Comanche on an incoming boat. He transmitted it ...
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 ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the Comanche Nation presents “Numunu Voices in the Wind,” a four-day festival featuring the culture and heritage of this Plains tribe. The ...
Descendants of Comanche Indian soldiers gathered to pray on Utah Beach on Monday in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, France. Fourteen Comanche code talkers landed on Utah Beach on June 6, 1944 with the 4th US ...
The common perception of Comanche Indians was shaped by Hollywood films such as “The Searchers” or by books like “Empire of the Summer Moon.” In these stories, the Comanches are portrayed as ...
Dr. Seuss wrote in his children’s story, “The Lorax”: “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” If only trees did have tongues, what tales they ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — 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 in ...
Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, TTU Libraries. Today's essay is the third and last article written by Tina Siemens about Quanah Parker and the Comanche ...
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