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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 ...
The non-fiction account Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (2016) by S. C. Gwynne provides a detailed account of the Parker raid, abductions and fates of various Parker family members with an especial focus on the lives of Cynthia Ann and Quanah Parker.
Through her oldest son, Quanah Parker, Cynthia Ann Parker left hundreds of descendants. Her story is well known. Cynthia Ann was taken by and adopted into the Comanche tribe in 1836, when she was ...
Their first child, Quanah Parker, was born some time around 1850; followed by another son, Pecos, and a daughter, Topusana. A great tribute to his affection toward Cynthia Ann Parker was that he never took another wife, though it was common among the Comanche for such a successful war chief to do so. [8]
According to Quanah Parker and his warriors, Peta Nocona was a broken and bitter man after Pease River. He was never the same after his wife was taken from him, and died sometime around 1863 or 1864 of complications of old war wounds incurred fighting the Apaches, and from grief at the loss of his wife and infant daughter.
Cynthia Ann lived with the Comanches for nearly 25 years. She married Comanche chief Peta Nocona and was the mother of three children, including Quanah Parker. In 1860, she was among a Native American party captured by Texas Rangers at the Battle of Pease River. Ironically, Cynthia Parker was the victim of two massacres which destroyed her life ...
She identified the man Martinez shot as a Mexican captive, the personal servant of Nocona's wife, Cynthia Ann Parker. [42] In Myth, Memory and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker the authors contend most of the material in the 1886 book of James T. Deshields was falsified or exaggerated for political gain. They also offer ...
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