Lawton's own Comanches were among the several tribes that contributed to the war effort by using their language as a code, one the Germans never broke. Comanche language helped win World War II By ...

Fresh Air Interview: S.C. Gwynne - Comanche Nation: The Rise And Fall Of An 'Empire' Quanah Parker, considered the greatest Comanche chief, was the son of Cynthia Ann Parker, a white pioneer woman ...

Charles Chibitty, 83, the last known survivor of the Comanche "code talkers" who used their native language to transmit messages for the Allies in Europe during World War II, died Wednesday at a ...

They were known for their horsemanship among the Comanche tribe. As they fought against enemy Native Indian tribes and resisted the white encroachments on the Great Plains, they achieved some success.

He said they were the tears of the Comanche Indians once they found out of the slaughtering of their horses by Col. Ranald Mackenzie, who led the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, part of the Red River War.

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) - The heroic deeds of a group of Comanche Code Talkers are finally getting recognition thanks to the hard work of the Comanche Indian Veterans Association. The association, led ...

The Texas Rangers in the 1840s had some success against the Comanche Indians, especially after they adopted Colt revolvers, but during the Civil War the Comanche Indians rolled back the frontier.

ON THE MORNING OF MAY 19, 1836, a young Comanche Indian rode into Fort Parker, in East Texas, with a band of warriors, snatched a blue-eyed nine-year-old girl from her mother, and galloped off ...

A World War II soldier from Oklahoma helped the Allies win the war by talking in his native tongue -- something he was forbidden to do as a child.

Prior to World War II Japanese and German "scholars" visited America to research Native American languages, including some who supposedly visited a German missionary church near Indiahoma in 1939.

Quanah Parker, considered the greatest Comanche chief, was the son of Cynthia Ann Parker, a white pioneer woman kidnapped by a raiding party when she was a little girl. Their story — and the ...