Promised Land in the New World

The time in which the action takes place is the 17th century. Settlement is just beginning. Europeans are slowly arriving in the New World to find a place for themselves. They meet Indians, who are generally friendly, but over time the natives discover the truth about why the whites want so much land. Of course conflicts break out. There are brave people who try to go further west themselves because the forts and towns on the east coast are small to them or offer nothing new. Indians generally do not trust strangers and are cautious in their relations with white settlers and other tribes. But this particular Comanche tribe, which has lived here for generations, once encountered white people. The meeting was initially fairly friendly, and the new neighbours settled not far from the village. However, after some time, the Comanches discovered that these colonists wanted to bring in even more white people and take over the entire territory. Of course, the Indians did not like this and demanded an explanation. Other lies told by the white people came to light, and it ended with the death of all the settlers. There were no children among the victims of the massacre, so the situation was under control, but for the Comanches it was a signal not to trust all white people. The most important point is that sometimes Europeans can get along with Indians. It is up to the tribes to decide whether others can settle on their territories. Some take advantage of this as part of neighbourly relations and others as blackmail but such end up quickly as corpses. Those who travelled further encountered many other Indian tribes along the way, much larger than the colonial settlements and forts. Many villages were inhabited by as many as 200-300 or even 400 people. However, we will talk about one of the largest in the region. It was inhabited by the Comanche tribe, who had lived here for generations on what they considered to be sacred land. The local inhabitants were like other Indians in that they wore skins as clothing, lived in a village built of wood surrounded by palisades as a wall, wore feathers in their hair if they had achieved fame, and decorated their bodies with various colours. Their houses resembled European ones but did not have glass windows. There were windows, but without panes. The Comanches believed in the Great Spirit and other gods, and they made sacrifices of animals or sometimes humans. However, the most important thing was that they cared deeply for their children. For them, the youngest members of the tribe were sacred and an important part of the community. They were the future that would determine the fate of the entire tribe. If anyone allowed violence against children in the tribe, that person would be humiliated, expelled or burned at the stake. That is how the people of this tribe are, and they do not want any changes.