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Jan 14, 2020 · Quanah Parker was a man of two societies and two centuries: traditional Comanche and white America, 19th century and 20th. He was a respected leader in all of those realms. Born around 1848 in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma, Quanah was the son of Comanche war chief Peta Nocona and his wife Nautda (“Someone Found”), a white woman ...
Sep 20, 2018 · His birth name was Quanah, a Comanche word that translates roughly as “odor” or “fragrance.”. Years later he added the surname “Parker” as a concession to the white half of his ancestry. The two names symbolized the two worlds of Quanah Parker. Quanah always said he was born “about 1850,” but various historians have placed the ...
Jan 7, 2021 · Parker, Quanah (ca. 1845–1911). Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Quahada Comanche Indians, son of Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, was born about 1845. According to Quanah himself, he was born on Elk Creek south of the Wichita Mountains in what is now Oklahoma, but there has been debate regarding his birthplace, and a Centennial marker ...
May 17, 2018 · Quanah Parker was born to Peta Nocona, a Quahadi (Kwahado, Quahada) Comanche war leader, and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white woman who had been captured by the Comanche and raised as an Indian. Cynthia's family, the Parkers, were influential people in prestatehood Texas, so the raid on Ft. Parker on May 19, 1836, is considered a major event in ...
PARKER, QUANAH (ca. 1852–1911). A Comanche warrior and political leader, Quanah Parker served as the last official principal chief of his tribe. He was the son of Peta Nocona, a Comanche chief, and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white captive of the Comanches. Little is known for certain about him until 1875 when his band of Quahada (Kwahada) Comanche ...
5 days ago · Quanah Parker. ca. 1845–February 23, 1911. Born about 1845, Comanche leader Quanah Parker lived two vastly different lives: the first as a warrior among the Plains Indians of Texas, and the second as a pragmatic leader who sought a place for his people in a rapidly changing America. Parker's birth was a direct result of the conflict between ...
Mar 19, 2024 · Quanah Parker (c. 1845–1911), the last Comanche war chief, led his people in the Red River War (1874–75) in Texas. He was the son of Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white woman captured as a child and raised by the Comanche. His intense charisma was enhanced by a striking physical feature: the bright blue eyes he inherited from ...
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