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Ten Bears, Yamaparika Comanche Leader
 
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Chief Ten Bears was an important leader in the Comanche tribe.   He went to Washington several times.  There he spoke for the tribe.  He told about his peoples' way of life during the Medicine Lodge Council, saying
“…I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.  I was born where there were no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath.  I want to die there and not remain within walls.  I know every stream and every wood between the Rio Grande and the Arkansas.  I have hunted and lived over that country.  I live like my fathers before me and like them I live happily…”
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