Editing Comanche (section)

== Population history ==
In 1832 Comanche chiefs told [[George Catlin]] that the tribe numbered up to 40,000 people, being able to muster up to 8,000 warriors. This high population appears to be confirmed by [[Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont|Bourgmont]] who was told by a Comanche chief that the tribe consisted of 12 villages and when Bourgmont visited one of those villages, he found there 800 warriors (if every other village was equally populous, the total number of warriors would be 9,600). In 1774 a French trader, J. Gaignard, wrote that one division of the Comanche (the Naytane, also known as Yamparika) had 4,000 warriors divided into four bands which were never together. In 1786 Spaniards estimated that the Comanches may have numbered up to 30,000. [[Jedidiah Morse]] around year 1820 estimated the Comanche at between 38,000 and 41,000. In 1819 three bands of the Comanche were reported as 2,500 warriors. Indian Affairs 1837 reported 19,200 people. [[Charles Bent]] in 1847 reported that they had 2,500 lodges. Indian Affairs 1849 reported them as 4,000 warriors and 20,000 total population. Around the mid-19th century [[Amiel Weeks Whipple|A. W. Whipple]], [[Emmanuel Domenech|E. Domenech]] and H. Howe all reported that the Comanche numbered up to 30,000.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Krzywicki |first=Ludwik |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4381154&view=1up&seq=346&skin=2021 |title=Primitive society and its vital statistics |publisher=Macmillan |year=1934 |series=Publications of the Polish Sociological Institute |location=London |page=487-489}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Domenech |first=Emmanuel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWkFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA24 |title=Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America |publisher=Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts |year=1860 |volume=2 |location=London |pages=24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Yamparika Indians |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/yamparika-indians}}</ref> The Comanche population apparently rapidly declined in the 2nd half of the 19th century. The census of 1890 found only 1,598 in Oklahoma. According to Indian Affairs there were 1,507 (in 1895), 1,499 (in 1900), 1401 (in 1905) and 1,476 (in 1910).<ref name=":1" /> The census of 1910 reported only 1,171.

Comanche population has rebounded in the 20th and 21st centuries. There are 17,000 Comanche Nation citizens.<ref name=about/> In the 2020 US census, 39,808 Americans stated they were Comanche.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=T01001&t=-5000K&g=010XX00US&y=2020 |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref>