to travel widely, striking terror into the hearts of their farthest enemy. It also enables them to provide for their families-food, shelter and clothing.
             Tribal government was virtually non-existent, with the Tribe being organized into bands and each band developing their own style of self government. During the nineteenth century there were five outstanding bands: the Pihnaatukha, Yapaituhka, Noyuka, Kwaharu and Kuutsutuhka.
             From the time White Men pushed westward towards a new frontier in the 1830s, many events occurred that altered the way of life for this great tribe. The Treaty of Medicine Lodge, the Battle of Adobe Walls, the Jerome Agreement and the Oklahoma land openings were but a few of these events.
             The Treaty of Medicine Lodge, signed in 1867, promised protection from the hunters killing off the buffalo, provided for schools and churches, permitted railroads to be built, and took 38.5 million acres in return for a three million acre reservation. Reservation life for the Comanches began in 1869.
             The Battle of Adobe Walls took place in 1874 in the Texas panhandle when buffalo hunters were attacked by Comanches, Kiowas and Cheyenne. The battle proved disastrous for the Indians and by 1880 both the buffalo and a way of life for the Comanches were gone.
             The Jerome Agreement of 1892 provided for an allotment of 160 acres for each man, woman and child in return for relinquishment of all but a half million acres. For the Relinqui
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