Mushroom
Gold Member
No tribe was as brutal as the Comanche
Actually, I would easily say the Lakota were worse.
Once part of the Mississippian Culture, when it imploded they were in roughly where Tennessee is today, and they started moving.
First north, until they met my ancestors in the Great Lakes region. Where they then started fighting all of the local tribes, which banded together and expelled them. Then they started to move west, attacking any tribes they ran across. Their time in the Great Lakes was roughly at the time that Spain was moving into Mexico, and they fought tribe after tribe. During this earning their nickname of "Sioux", which comes from an Algonquin word for "little rattlesnake".
By the time the US started its "westward expansion" they had moved to the Dakotas and were pushing into Montana and Wyoming. If not for the arrival of settlers, by about now they would likely be ravaging the Yakama tribes at the mouth of the Columbia before turning south. They never once made any attempt to settle down, simply thrashing any tribes in an area and attacking as much as they could before moving yet again.
The Comanche were warlike, but they were not in a perpetual migration and cracking skulls with dozens of different tribes in their movement.