Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief

by Hagan, William T

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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. Quanah Parker (c. late 1840s - February 23, 1911) was a Native American leader, the son of Comanche chief Peta Nocona and "Anglo-Texan" Cynthia Ann Parker, and the last chief of the Quahadi Comanche Indians. Quanah Parker's mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, was a member of the large Parker frontier family that settled in east Texas in the 1830s. She was captured in 1836 by Comanches during the raid of Fort Parker near present-day Groesbeck, Texas. She was given the Indian name Nadauh. Cynthia Ann eventually married the Comanche warrior Puhtocnocony (called Peta Nocona by the whites). In 1860, Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured in the battle of Pease River by Texas Rangers under Lawrence Sullivan Ross. Orphaned, Quanah took refuge with the Quahadi Comanches. Quanah Parker became a leader of the Quahadi, and led them successfully for a number of years. With their food source depleted, and under constant pressure from the army, the Quahadi Comanches finally surrendered and in 1875 moved to a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. Parker's was the last tribe of the Staked Plains or Llano Estacado to come to the reservation. Quanah was named chief over all the Comanches on the reservation, and proved to be a forceful, resourceful and able leader. Through wise investments, he became perhaps the wealthiest American Indian of his day in the United States. Quanah embraced much of white culture, and was well respected by the whites. Nevertheless, he rejected both monogamy and traditional Protestant Christianity in favor of the Native American Church Movement. He had seven wives and twenty five children and founded the Native American Church. One of his sons, White Parker, became a Methodist minister. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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