The annual Comanche Nation Fair at Lawton includes traditional powwow, cultural demonstrations, and celebration of Comanche heritage — a living expression of the cultural continuity that survived the reservation period, the allotment period, the boarding school era, and the termination policies of the mid-twentieth century.

The Comanche people’s relationship with horses did not end with Palo Duro Canyon.

Horsemanship remained a valued skill through the reservation period and into the twentieth century, and horse-related traditions — rodeo, horse training, traditional riding — remained part of Comanche community life long after the free-range horse economy of the Plains was gone.

The Kiowa Tribe Today

The Kiowa Tribe is headquartered at Carnegie, Oklahoma, and has approximately 12,000 enrolled members.

The Kiowa maintain extensive cultural programs, including the Kiowa language preservation programs that have been working to revitalize a language classified as severely endangered.