According to some reports, they nearly wiped out the Apache people. Their later territory to the south overlapped with several other tribes, whom they drove out through war. They speak an Uto-Aztecan language that is still the same as spoken by the Shoshone people of today. The Comanche were a Shoshone tribe when they lived farther north. They adopted the horse into their culture in the 17th century and quickly conquered vast tracts through subjugation and warfare. They came to dominate their new territory.
The Comanche in the 1600s moved from the mountains in the North onto the Southern Plains. They were then in turn conquered, after many struggles, by invading people of European descent. The history of the Native American Comanche tribe includes their move from ancestral homelands in Wyoming to more southerly parts and conquering new lands.