Bad Eagle (1839-1906) was an Antelope Comanche leader, a band headman. He was a man of experience in three cultures, Comanche, Mexican, and Anglo-American. As a young Comanche brave he was captured by the Mexican army, taken to a military establishment in Mexico, El Conejo, and adopted by one Captain Portillo.  Bad Eagle was the only full blood Comanche ever to wear the Mexican military uniform.  As the political scene evolved in the southwest, he later returned to his Comanche people, and then became a leader in the new era. He believed America offered something more valuable than Mexico, and he moved his family to Indian Territory (Oklahoma), on Comanche land.  Bad Eagle saw into the future, and realized that the best hopes of Indian people were in America, regardless of the past wars. He was a man of multicultural experience, and chose the Anglo-American world as superior.

     The Bad Eagle Foundation was named in honor of Bad Eagle, and of all American Indian Patriots. The Foundation is designed to encourage conservatism in American Indian people.  It is the vision of The Bad Eagle Foundation that Indians can assume a leading role in the preservation of American values for the nation at large. This will be accomplished through a variety of educational endeavors involving various public venues. There has yet been no national organization to unite American Indian conservatives, and the Bad Eagle Foundation assumes this premiere role.  It will develop, in time, into a positive, patriotic social force in America.

     The Bad Eagle Foundation is Dr. Yeagley’s tribute to Bad Eagle, his direct ancestor. Dr. Yeagley believes that original Comanche values were essentially conservative, and that the Indian voice should speak to American conservative values and to affirm them. The Foundation hopes to support specific efforts not only to reinvest Indian conservative values in American society, but to demonstrate the truth of Bad Eagle’s vision: America is best for Indians. The Bad Eagle Foundation is designed to promote all American Indians in conservative endeavors.