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The son of Comanche Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker,
a white girl taken captive during the 1836 raid on Parker's Fort.
She was recaptured along with her daughter during a raid in 1850 on
the Pease River, but never readjusted to life among the whites. She
had lived with the Comanche 24 years. She died in 1864 in Anderson
County, Texas.
After being seriously wounded and his father killed, Quanah refused
to accept life on a reservation and associated himself with the
Quahada Comanche, raiding settlements and buffalo hunting camps. The
Quahada virtually controlled the area of the Staked Planes for many
years. Quanah brought together a multi-tribal union including the
Kiowa to strengthen the Quahada but after losing many warriors in a
raid on a buffalo camp at Adobe Walls in 1874, the union fell apart.
He took his people to the reservation in Oklahoma and was named
Chief of the Comanche soon after.
Quanah adjusted to white man's life very well, but in his own way.
Much to the chagrin of the reservation agents, he refused to give up
polygamy and his four wives, and used Peyote. He learned English and
became reservation Judge, negotiated grazing rights with the Texas
cattlemen, and lobbied congress pleading the cause of the Comanche.
President Theodore Roosevelt was counted among his friends.
Quanah Parker is buried next to his beloved mother at Fort Sill
Military Cemetery on Chiefs Knoll in Oklahoma.
This 14 inch figure is a partial sculpt. His eyes are blown glass,
his hair is mohair. His costuming is leather, completely hand sewn
with sinew. The hem on his robe is machine sewn. He wears
fringed leather leggings, war shirt and Comanche style moccasins.
His breastplate is made from beads and real miniature hair pipe.
Quanah wore otter braid wraps, but these are from a recycled mink
fur.
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