 The Comanche hunted the bison of the Great Plains for food and skins; their adoption of the horse from Spanish colonists in New Mexico made them more mobile; they traded with the Spanish, French, Americans and neighboring Native-American peoples; and (most famously) they waged war on and raided European settlements as well as other Native Americans.They took captives from weaker tribes during warfare, using them as slaves or selling them to the Spanish and (later) Mexican settlers.They also took thousands of captives from the Spanish, Mexican, and American settlers and incorporated them into Comanche society.