Cynthia Ann Quanah Parker
Quanah was the son of chief peta nocona and cynthia ann parker a white woman captured by the comanches as a child.
Cynthia ann quanah parker. Age nine by comanches during the raid of fort parker near present day groesbeck texas given the comanche name nadua foundling she was adopted into the nokoni band of comanches as foster daughter of tabby nocca. He befriended theodore roosevelt and amassed 40 000 worth of railway stock but he never forswore his heritage. The biography of cynthia ann parker on may 19 1836 cynthia ann parker was captured by a band of comanche and kiowa indians.
He promoted the religious. She was captured in 1836 c. Narua was an american who was kidnapped in 1836 around age 10 by a comanche war band which had attacked her family s settlement.
Her comanche name means someone found. Later she married chief peta nocoma and had a son quanah who became a feared leader of the comanches. Parker was adopted by the comanche and lived with them for 24 years completely forgetting her white ways.
Quanah parker s mother cynthia ann parker born c. 1827 was a member of the large parker frontier family that settled in east texas in the 1830s. Parker and lucy parker in crawford county illinois.
Peta nocona chose his wife from among the members of the nokoni band. Cynthia ann parker was born to silas m. Cynthia ann parker s son quanah would go on to play an important role as the last comanche chief for 25 years providing leadership promoting self sufficiency and self reliance on a comanche reservation in southwestern oklahoma.
1864 was a chief of the comanche nokoni band. Quanah later added his mother s surname to his given name. After an attack on fort parker in 1836 comanche indians adopted young cynthia ann into their community.
Quanah refused to sign the medicine lodge treaty of 1867 and went on a savage eight year war against the whites. Biography of cynthia ann parker cynthia ann parker was born in 1825 to silas m. The family s history was forever altered in 1860 when texas rangers attacked an indian encampment on the pease river.
Descendants of the parker family of texas reunite with their american indian relatives to honor their shared heritage. And lucy duty parker in crawford. Unlike cynthia ann quanah came to embrace white culture.
He was the son of peta nacona a noted fierce comanche chief and cynthia ann parker a white woman captured by the comanches. Years later she married a comanche chief and their son quanah parker became a leader of the comanche community and later on the reservation where he made a living as a. He led his tribe during the extensive indian.
There he oversaw the building of schools helped create ranching operations and established crops.
