Hupe

The Hupe, recorded by the Spanish as Jupe or Hoipi and in Comanche as Hʉpenʉʉ, 'Timber People', were the northernmost of the three Comanche divisions known to the Spanish before the 1750s. The Comanche broke away from the Great Basin Shoshone in the early eighteenth century after adopting horses, and the Hʉpenʉʉ were the last to leave, keeping a dialect close to Eastern Shoshone and Great Basin customs.

They lived in the wooded Central Plains between the Platte and Arkansas rivers, which gave them their name. In the 1750s and 1760s other Comanche divisions pushed south into Texas; the Hʉpenʉʉ followed more slowly, and in the 1780s the Spanish counted them on the North Canadian River as Western Comanche.

The name Hʉpenʉʉ vanished from records in the early nineteenth century; the band is thought to have merged into the Nokoni, Kwahadi and Penateka.