When we got through, Tommy Wahnee prayed over the food,” said Coffey Edgar Monetathchi was pleased the employees were running the fair, cooking in the back that Sunday afternoon. “The Shoshone leadership came to be with us. When she passed away she donated all her belongings to the Comanche Nation Collage,” said Coffey. I told her that she could be Comanche all she wanted but, I couldn’t put her on the roll. There was a thivah lady from Texas who wanted to be so much Comanche. People started moving in on Thursday and the camp site was packed. That Wednesday of the fair, we had a Peyote Meeting, and prayed people would come, and good feelings would be abundant, and have weather good intensions, and when they leave they will feel good about their selves. “It (the fair) had all the events, horse races, food, parade, and camping church service. (See back page) north of Cache.” said Coffey. At the Comanche Homecoming, we passed out flyers, Comanche Fair. He said ‘Wallace we need to talk,’ and that is when we got the okay for the fair. Two weeks later, I got a call from Major General Fred Marty. Instead of bombing this land, we will heal it. Sill down and give it back to the Comanche’s, and we will heal it. They were starting to close military bases and I told him to close Ft. I wrote a letter to Dick Cheney, who was the secretary of defense at the time. I kept talking to him and he was very negative. I said ‘It’s historically ours and that it’s where our winter encampment used to be’. Essentially he said ‘no’ because if he allowed us to have to have it, then other tribes (the Kiowa’s) would want it.

We started visiting he came to us and we went to him. “So I began talking to Major General Fred Marty at the time.

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