Comanche Page #2
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- 1956
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and my people is ancient.
no one in truth can
say when it began.
When the Spaniards first
explored here
around 1707, they were
received with open arms.
had some tribal belief
that the white man
come from the East
It would be something
special, almost a god.
Well, the white man came and he
proved to be really special, all right!
They discovered silver and forced
the Indians at gun point,
to work in mines for them.
It was slave labor, paid for
with beatings, brutality
and death, at the whims
of the overseers.
The Comanches got sick
of that. They rebelled.
they could find.
By the time the Comanches,
Navajos and Pueblos
had avenged themselves,
There wasn't much left in the
settlements of Pueblo and Taos.
There wasn't much left
of people, either
with all the torture
and mutilation.
So the, the Spaniards
passed a law,
offering a bounty for every
Comanche scalp.
Ranging from $25 to
$100 a scalp.
The $100 was for the warriors.
you got $50 for a squaw
and $25 for a baby,
the Papoose.
Correction, sir.
Since our Independence,
the Mexican government
has revoked it.
No longer will Mexico pay for the
scalp of the Comanche.
Your government is to be
complimented, Senor,
but renegades on both sides
of the border got rich.
They made big business out of
hunting down Comanches.
Looking for scalps, like
animals for their pelts.
Once they staged a big fiesta
and invited the Indians.
More than 400 came.
Men, women and children.
And they massacred them
all for their scalps.
So, that's the way it is:
Comanches kill Mexicans
to get even with
the Spanish,
And, the Mexicans kill Comanches
in revenge for that.
- It's become a way of life.
- I can see how it began.
But the Comanches must
throw away their war paint,
or we'll have to make them.
If they knew they'd paying a
bounty for the scalps,
It would make big medicine
with them.
That's right.
We could base peace
talks on that.
I don't know.
I still think troops are the answer.
People can't go on killing
each other forever.
You see, Commissioner, the
Comanches are known
as "lords of the south plains".
They're a very proud
warrior race.
Maybe they'd sit down
and talk peace,
but they'd get right up
and go again,
if they weren't given
honorable terms.
President US Grant,
I have explicit powers
to make the peace with the
Comanches and get it ratified.
But, naturally no agreement is good
unless it's fair to both sides.
If we could only get through
to Quanah Parker!
Parker? Quanah Parker?
Chief of the Antlopes, the
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