Native American Indian leader, Comanche (c. 1845–1911)
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Quanah Parker
Quanah Parker, c. 1890
Comanche Nation United States Chief of the Comanches
In office 1890–1911
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Personal details
Born
1845 or (probably, Pecos' birth) 1852 Elk Valley, Wichita Mountains, Comancheria (Oklahoma)
Died
February 23, 1911 Quanah Parker Star House Cache, Oklahoma, U.S.
Cause of death
Heart failure
Resting place
Fort Sill Post Cemetery Fort Sill, Oklahoma 34°40′10″N98°23′43″W / 34.669529°N 98.395336°W / 34.669529; -98.395336
Po-bish-e-quasho "Iron Jacket", John Parker, James W. Parker, Daniel Parker, John Richard Parker
Parents
Peta Nocona
Cynthia Ann Parker
Known for
Comanche leader to bring the Kwahadi people into Fort Sill
Founder of the Native American Church
The last Comanche chief
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Quanah Parker (Comanche: Kwana, lit.'smell, odor'; c. 1845 – February 23, 1911) was a war leader of the Kwahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche Nation. 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 an eight-year-old child and assimilated into the Nokoni tribe. 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. Mackenzie. 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.
Quanah Parker was never elected chief by his people but was appointed by the federal government as principal chief of the entire Comanche Nation. He became a primary emissary of southwest indigenous Americans to the United States legislature. In civilian life, he gained wealth as a rancher, settling near Cache, Oklahoma. 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. He was elected deputy sheriff of Lawton in 1902. 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 is buried at Chief's Knoll on Fort Sill. Many cities and highway systems in southwest Oklahoma and north Texas, once southern Comancheria, bear reference to his name.
QuanahParker (Comanche: Kwana, lit. 'smell, odor'; c. 1845 – February 23, 1911) was a war leader of the Kwahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche Nation...
assimilated as Comanche, Parker had married Peta Nocona, a chief. They had three children together, including son QuanahParker, who became the last free...
The QuanahParker Star House, with stars painted on its roof, is located in the city of Cache, county of Comanche, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It was...
Nation, later marrying Chief Peta Nocona and giving birth to a son, QuanahParker, who became a prominent leader of the Comanches and a war leader during...
Quanah was never an official chief since the United States government appointed him to the position. Before he was a Comanche chief, QuanahParker witnessed...
Ann Parker, who had been taken as a captive in a raid and was adopted into the tribe by Tabby-nocca's family. Among their children was QuanahParker, the...
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QuanahParker Lake is a reservoir located in Comanche County, Oklahoma, and is part of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. It was built on Quanah Creek...
John Henry Parker (1830–1915) was the brother of Cynthia Ann Parker and the uncle of Comanche chief QuanahParker. An Anglo-Texas man who was kidnapped...
Peta Nocona and his grandson was QuanahParker, the last Comanche Chief. In James DeShields' 1886 book, Cynthia Ann Parker, he notes "The trophies of Pohebits...
initially refused to go, he later followed at Quanah's request. Herman Lehmann lived with QuanahParker's family on the Kiowa-Comanche reservation in 1877–78...
White Parker (1887–1956) was a son of Mah-Cheeta-Wookey and QuanahParker, chief of the Comanches. He married Laura E. Clark (1890-1962), a daughter of...
Parker who later married a chief, Peta Nocona, and gave birth to a son, QuanahParker, who would become the last war chief of the Comanche in the 1870s. The...
Robert LeRoy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang...
developed into eliminating the threat of the Comanche tribe, namely QuanahParker and his Quahadi. Following on the heels of the Civil War, the Army had...
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the U.S. Cavalry in Palo Duro Canyon. The last Comanche war chief, QuanahParker, surrendered in June 1875, which would finally end the wars fought by...
stamps. Later in 2010, an initiative to honor QuanahParker and the Comanche people named the QuanahParker Trail was formed by citizen historians that...
had held previously. On 27 June 1874, Isa-tai'i and Comanche chief QuanahParker led about 250 warriors in an attack on a small outpost of buffalo hunters...
Hidalgo, Thunderheart, and Pirates of the Caribbean. He also played QuanahParker in the History Channel documentary Comanche Warrior, which was filmed...
adaptation of S. C. Gwynne's nonfiction book Empire of the Summer Moon: QuanahParker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Tribe in American...
disappearance of the great buffalo herds, the tribes eventually surrendered. QuanahParker and his Kwahadi Comanches were the last to abandon the struggle and...
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