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"Comanche Land and Ever Has Been"
Small butte east of Cement, Oklahoma, which inspired the Comanche place name "rock
town." Photograph by DanielJ. Gelo.
in Texas are remembered today, more than one hundred years since
Comanches routinely camped along them."
Non-Indian settlers imposed a competing spatial order marked out by
habitations and trading centers, roads and rail lines, and the requisite
units of measure and place names, not to mention rectangular houses
and yards. Some reluctance to capitulate to the new cognitive order is evi-
dent in Manuel Garcia-Rej6n's 1866 lexicon, which gives the same term,
namarema, for "ceiling," "roof," and "door"-usages that preserve the
image of a conical skin dwelling.' With similar stubborness Comanche
place names were retained or invented for the non-Indian locales around
the former reservation, or more specifically, to refer to the Comanche
settlements in and around these locales. Anadarko received the native
name for the Washita River on which it is located: Tusohokwehunu?bi,
"Elm River" (some people today gloss it as "Blackjack Oak River").' The
small community of Cement is called Toyanarimi'i'?, "Rock [Mountain]
Town" because of the peculiar buttes east of town. Though Cyril was
named for Cyril Louise LookingGlass, whose allotment became the rail
6 Wistrand-Robinson and Armagost, Comanche Dictionary and Grammar, 24, 37, 97, 100, 144.
6 Manuel Garcia Rej6n, Comanche Vocabulary: Trilingual Edition, Daniel J. Gelo, trans. and ed.
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995), 22, 25, 40, 46.
7 See Albert S. Gatschet, Comanche Vocabulary and Notes, 1884, Bureau of American Ethnology
Manuscript 748 (National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C.), 117, 126.277
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