Great Plains Studies, Center for
Review of Comanche Political History: An Ethnohistorical Perspective 1706-1875 by Thomas W. Kavanagh
Date of this Version
Spring 1997
Abstract
The precise nature of pre-reservation Comanche political organization has long been a vexing question. Key issues include the meaning of numerous reported names for Comanche-speaking subgroups and the construction of power and authority within and across these units. The present work is the most successful attempt to clarify ethnonyms and describe Comanche organizational principles.
Comanche Political History offers a valuable synthesis and interpretation and will be useful to a variety of scholars.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Research 7:1 (Spring 1997). Copyright © 1997 The Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Used by permission. http://www.unl.edu/plains/publications/GPR/gpr.shtml