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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 Nautdah. Cynthia Ann was eventually married to her warrior captor, Puhtocnocony (called Peta Nocona by the whites). In 1860, Peta Nocona was killed in a battle against Texas Rangers under Lawrence Sullivan Ross. The victory resulted in the recapture of Cynthia Ann. 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 Christianity. He had seven wives and twenty five children and belonged to the peyote-eating Native American Church. One of his sons, White Parker, became a Methodist minister.

Quanah Parker was born sometime between 1845 and 1849 in the Wichita mountain region of what is now Oklahoma, and died in 1911 in Oklahoma. In 1957, both he and his mother were re-interred at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

The town of Quanah, Texas, county seat of Hardeman County, was named for Quanah Parker.

The town of Nocona, in Montague County, Texas, was named for Quanah Parker's father, Comanche chief Peta Nocona.

External links

• Quanah Parker
• Quanah Parker Comanche War Chief
• Quanah Parker (1887-88), picture by D. A. Caldwell

References

• Frontier Blood: the Saga of the Parker Family, by Jo Ann Powell Exley
• Quanah Parker, by Clyde L. and Grace Jackson
• Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief, by William T. Hagan

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