49 at 2009 Comanche Homecoming BEST Good Singing (enhanced)

3957. From the Archives. Press any blue simian1842 or simian1842a button to see all BEST videos. 49 at the Comanche Homecoming 2009. Not much pictures, but good 49 singing. One of the last of the "all night - inside the circle" 49's. Sultan Park, 1 mile N of Walters, OK. This powwow was started by the Comanche Veterans of World War I, who invited neighboring tribes' veterans to celebrate the World War I victory. In the 1920's Cheyenne and Arapaho veterans came down by wagon and camped for a week at this powwow led by WWI Pvt Striking First. After these veterans aged, the powwow was resurrected by returning veterans from World War II, they invited neighboring tribes and formed the American Indian Veterans Association. Eventually, the powwow was taken over by the Walters Service Club and renamed the Comanche Homecoming Powwow. This area was a favorite Comanche camping ground long before 1900, and powwows were held here since the 1800's. The U. S. Army Dragoons, in the 1800's, came to a huge encampment of Comanches stretching from about this area north throughout East Cache Creek, up east of Lawton, and into the Wichita Mountains, at the time (before epidemics) the Comanche population was estimated to be about 30,000 to 40,000. They claimed all the land south of the Arkansas River in Kansas, to the Rio Grand in Mexico, and from the mountains near Roswell NM to the Cross Timbers north and south of Ft Worth TX. They allowed the Kiowa and Kiowa Apache tribes to settle on their land somewhere around the turn of the century around 1800, when they were fleeing the Sioux. ("We whipped the Kiowas at the Battle of Greasy Grass" (about 1700-1805)....Sioux chief, 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty Proceedings) (Custer Battle of Greasy Grass Creek fought about 1876). As told by Ten Bears, Comanche Chief who succeeded Shaved Head, the chief at the time of the arrival of the Kiowas, "When you came to us, you had dogs pulling your belongings, where did you get your horses"...(1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty Proceedings). The Shoshone tribes (also Bannock etc.) sing the same and similar songs as war journey songs, the Shoshones and Comanches speak the same language and are brother tribes.

[@Stefanie420]

One of the best 49’s I’ve attended. It better be good tonight.

[@andycozad3818]

I'll always remember them good ole 9s there.

[@gigicooper1392]

Haha "OJ Redelk you are ready to go home OJ Redelk..." buh