The Comanche Wars were forays by bands of Comanche

Comanche

The Comanche are a Native American ethnic group whose historic range consisted of present-day eastern New Mexico, southern Colorado, northeastern Arizona, southern Kansas, all of Oklahoma, and most of northwest Texas. Historically, the Comanches were hunter-gatherers, with a typical Plains Indian...

 native Americans

Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

 along the Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 and Texan

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

 frontier. Some of their forays extended well down into Mexico. The Apache

Apache

Apache is the collective term for several culturally related groups of Native Americans in the United States originally from the Southwest United States. These indigenous peoples of North America speak a Southern Athabaskan language, which is related linguistically to the languages of Athabaskan...

 conducted similar forays in the vicinity of southern Arizona

Arizona

Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

. The last band of Comanches surrendered in 1875 though some warriors continued to fight in conflicts such as the Buffalo Hunters' War

Buffalo Hunters' War

The Buffalo Hunters' War, or the Staked Plains War, occurred in 1877. Approximately 170 Comanche warriors and their families led by Black Horse left the Indian Territory in December, 1876, for the Llano Estacado of Texas...

 from 1876 to 1877.

See also

• Comanche history
  Comanche History
  Forming a part of the Eastern Shoshone linguistic group in southeastern Wyoming who moved on to the buffalo Plains around 1500 AD , proto-Comanche groups split off and moved south some time before 1700 AD. The Shoshone migration to the Great Plains was apparently triggered by the Little Ice Age,...
  
  
• Texas-Indian Wars
  Texas-Indian Wars
  The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and Plains Indians. These conflicts began when the first European and mostly Spanish settlers moved into Spanish Texas, and continued through Texas's time as part of Mexico, when more Europeans, especially Americans...
  
  
• Comanche–Mexico Wars
• Apache-Mexico Wars
• Mexican Indian Wars
  Mexican Indian Wars
  The Mexican Indian Wars refer to the conflicts fought between Spanish, or Mexican, forces and Mexican Indians. The period began in 1519 during Hernán Cortés' conquest of the Aztec Empire and continued to 1933 during the Caste War in Yucatan against the Maya....
  
  
• American Indian Wars