Ĭynthia Ann Parker and Nocona also had another son, Pecos ( Pecan), and a daughter, Topsana (Prairie Flower). In a letter to rancher Charles Goodnight, Quanah Parker writes, "From the best information I have, I was born about 1850 on Elk Creek just below the Wichita Mountains." Alternative sources cite his birthplace as Laguna Sabinas/Cedar Lake in Gaines County, Texas. Quanah Parker's paternal grandfather was the renowned Kwahadi chief Iron Jacket (Puhihwikwasu'u), a warrior of the earlier Comanche-American Wars, famous among his people for wearing a Spanish coat of mail.Ĭynthia Ann Parker and Nocona's first child was Quanah Parker, born in the Wichita Mountains of southwestern Oklahoma. Īssimilated into the Comanche, Cynthia Ann Parker married the Kwahadi warrior chief Peta Nocona, also known as Puhtocnocony, Noconie, Tah-con-ne-ah-pe-ah, or Nocona (" Lone Wanderer"). Given the Comanche name Nadua (Foundling), she was adopted into the Nokoni band of Comanches, as foster daughter of Tabby-nocca. age nine) by Comanches during the raid of Fort Parker near present-day Groesbeck, Texas. 1827), was a member of the large Parker frontier family that settled in east Texas in the 1830s. Quanah Parker's mother, Cynthia Ann Parker (born c. Many cities and highway systems in southwest Oklahoma and north Texas, once southern Comancheria, bear reference to his name.Ĭynthia Ann Parker and her daughter, Topʉsana (Prairie Flower), in 1861 He is buried at Chief's Knoll on Fort Sill. After his death in 1911, the leadership title of Chief was replaced with chairman Quanah Parker is thereby described as the "Last Chief of the Comanche," a term also applied to Horseback. He was elected deputy sheriff of Lawton in 1902. Though he encouraged Christianization of Comanche people, he also advocated the syncretic Native American Church alternative, and fought for the legal use of peyote in the movement's religious practices. In civilian life, he gained wealth as a rancher, settling near Cache, Oklahoma. He became a primary emissary of southwest indigenous Americans to the United States legislature. Quanah Parker was never elected chief by his people but was appointed by the federal government as principal chief of the entire Comanche Nation. With European-Americans hunting American bison, the Comanches' primary sustenance, into near extinction, Quanah Parker eventually surrendered and peaceably led the Kwahadi to the reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Following the apprehension of several Kiowa chiefs in 1871, Quanah Parker emerged as a dominant figure in the Red River War, clashing repeatedly with Colonel Ranald S. He was likely born into the Nokoni ("Wanderers") band of Tabby-nocca and grew up among the Kwahadis, the son of Kwahadi Comanche chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, an Anglo-American who had been abducted as a nine-year-old child and assimilated into the Nokoni tribe. 1845 – February 23, 1911) was a war leader of the Kwahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche Nation. Quanah Parker (Comanche kwana, "smell, odor") ( c.
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