DLPT redirects here. For other uses, see DLPT (disambiguation). The Defense Language Proficiency Test (or DLPT) is a battery of foreign language tests produced by the Defense Language Institute and used by the United States Department of Defense (DoD). They are intended to assess the general language proficiency of native English speakers in a specific foreign language, in the skills of reading and listening.
1 Like other Plains Indians, buffalo was of the utmost importance to the Comanche. 2  They lived a nomadic lifestyle in constant search of buffalo which provided them with food, shelter, and clothing. 3  Aside from buffalo and other meat, their diet consisted of fruits, nuts and wild root vegetables. Comanche language remains very similar to that of the Northern Shoshone and although it has several dialects, it is understood by most neighboring Indian tribes. 2  Like other Plains Indians, buffalo was of the utmost importance to the Comanche.
Meat was dried for long-term storage and eaten roasted, baked, boiled and even raw. Since the Apache did not farm, their meat-based diet was supplemented with fruits, berries, nuts, seeds and vegetables they found growing wild. One of their chief fruit sources was the mescal cactus, which they used for food and drink. Other cacti the Apache relied on for food were the yucca, tule, palm and mesquite.