User blog comment:Pygmy Hippo 2/Apache Warriors vs. New Kingdom Egyptian Soldiers/@comment-27358240-20190730145114/@comment-27358240-20190731014146

@Tybalt The term Padouca applies to both Apache and Comanche and refers to their way of fighting. More on this here:

"The problematic term “Padouca” arose about this time. A long-running debate about the identity of these people has ensued ever since. The key to understanding the problem is the word identifying them in the Santee Sioux language—Pa-hdo-ka—which means “to pierce or run through” or “piercers.” This term applied to southern Plains enemies who attacked the Santee in the style of heavy cavalry. Both the Apache and the Comanche in the mid-eighteenth century were “piercers”; that is, they wore leather armor, rode armored horses, and attacked with long lances tipped with sabers stolen or traded from the Spanish."