. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 301 COMAC COMANCHE 327 Salish tribes). Soayalpi.—Hale in U. S. Expl. Exped., VI, 'iO.'i, l!S46. Squaw-a-tosh.—Sucklev in Pac. R. R. Rep., l, 300, Squeer-yer-pe.—Ibid. Squiaelps.—Lane in Ind. Aft". Rep., 159, IS.'JO. Sweielpa. —Wilson in Jtmr. '292, 1S66. Swi-el-pree.—Rossin Ind. Aflf. Rep., 22,1870. Whe-el-po.—Lewis and Clark, Exped., I, map, 1814. Whe-el-poo.—McVickar, Exped. Lewis and •Clark, II, , 1S42. Comae. A former Pima rancheria, vis- ited by Kino and Mange in 1699; situated on the Rio (liia, 3 leagues (miles?) below the mo


. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 301 COMAC COMANCHE 327 Salish tribes). Soayalpi.—Hale in U. S. Expl. Exped., VI, 'iO.'i, l!S46. Squaw-a-tosh.—Sucklev in Pac. R. R. Rep., l, 300, Squeer-yer-pe.—Ibid. Squiaelps.—Lane in Ind. Aft". Rep., 159, IS.'JO. Sweielpa. —Wilson in Jtmr. '292, 1S66. Swi-el-pree.—Rossin Ind. Aflf. Rep., 22,1870. Whe-el-po.—Lewis and Clark, Exped., I, map, 1814. Whe-el-poo.—McVickar, Exped. Lewis and •Clark, II, , 1S42. Comae. A former Pima rancheria, vis- ited by Kino and Mange in 1699; situated on the Rio (liia, 3 leagues (miles?) below the mouth of Salt r., s. Ariz. S. Bartolome Comae—Mange in Doc. Hist. 4th s., I, 306, 1856. Comachica. A Calusa village on the s. AV. coast of Florida, about 1570.—Fonta- neda Memoir {ca. 1575), Smith transl., 19, 1854. Comanche. One of the southern tribes of the Shoshonean stock, and the only one of that group living entirely on the plains. Their language and traditions show that they are a comparatively recent offshoot from the Shoshoni of Wyoming, ])oth tribes speaking practically the same dia- lect and, until very recently, keeping up constant and friendly communication. Within the traditionary period the 2 tribes lived adjacent to each other in s. Wyom- ing, since wliich time the Shoshoni have been beaten back into the mountains bv. ;A HAVI (THE MILKY WAY) —PENATEKA COMA the Sioux ana other prairie tribes, while the Comanche have been driven steadily southward by the same pressure. In this southerly migration the Penateka seem to have preceded the rest of the tribe. The Kiowa say that when they themselves moved southward from the Black-hills region, the Arkansas was the N. boundarv of the Comanche. In 1719 the Comanche are mentioned under their Siouan name of Padonca as living in what now is w. Kansas. Itmust be remembered that from 500 to 800 m. was an ordinary range for a prairie tribe and that the Comanche were equally at home on the Platte and i


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