Why Even the Apache Feared the Comanche

The most feared raiders in the Southwest were the Apache — until a people who arrived from nowhere made the hunters into the hunted. This documentary traces how the Comanche, once a poor Shoshone offshoot on foot, rebuilt their entire society around the horse after the herds scattered north, and turned mounted archery and the buffalo economy into a power no one on the Southern Plains could match. It follows the long dispossession that drove the Lipan and Plains Apache south off the buffalo country, the Apache's desperate turn to Spain, and the violent proof of Comanche supremacy: the mission at San Sabá built to shelter them, its destruction by a coalition of roughly two thousand warriors in 1758, and the humiliation of Colonel Parrilla's punitive army in 1759 at the fortified Taovaya village on the Red River — cannons abandoned in the dust. This channel tells the survival, warfare, and raw endurance of the peoples who mastered the harshest lands on Earth — real history, told like a film. New documentary every week. #Comanche #Apache #NativeAmericanHistory #Comancheria #SouthernPlains #HorseCulture #SanSaba #HistoryDocumentary #PlainsIndians #buffalo