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.
The Comanches did not arrive on the South Plains as a unified body but rather in numerous family groups or bands. The band structure of Comanche society was not rigid, and bands coalesced and broke apart, depending on the needs and goals of their members.hen Texans won their independence from Mexico in 1836 the Comanches and their allies were still in absolute control of the Texas plains. They frequently conducted raids on frontier settlements from San Antonio to northern Mexico.