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Biography of Quanah ParkerName: Quanah ParkerBirth Date: c. 1845 Death Date: February 23, 1911 Place of Birth: Witchita Falls, Texas, United States Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: religious leader, tribal leader Quanah Parker Quanah Parker (1845-1911) was a leader of the Comanche people during the difficult transition period from free-ranging life on the southern plains to the settled ways of reservation life. He became an influential negotiator with government agents, a prosperous cattle-rancher, a vocal advocate of formal education for Native children, and a devout member of the Peyote Cult.Quanah Parker was born to Peta Nocona, a Quahadi (Kwahado, Quahada) Comanche war leader, and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white woman who had been captured by the Comanche and raised as an Indian. Cynthia's family, the Parkers, were influential people in prestatehood Texas, so the raid on Ft. Parker on May 19, 1836, is considered a major event in Texas history. Several family members died in the raid, but nine-year-old Cynthia was one of those taken alive. She and her brother were adopted by the Natives, but her brother apparently died soon after. Cynthia was renamed …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…French Impressionism in art1861-1865: American Civil War1865-1900: Realistic Period of American literature1866: Austro-Prussian War1870-1871: Franco-Prussian War1870-1890: Indian Wars1898: Spanish-American WarParker's contemporaries:Sitting Bull (c.1831-1890) Sioux tribal leaderCrazy Horse (1842-1877) Native American tribal chiefHenry James (1843-1916) American novelistCalamity Jane (1852-1903) American frontierswomanWoodrow Wilson(1856-1924) American presidentJane Addams (1860-1935) American social worker and writerSelected world events:1859: Charles Darwin's Origin of Species published1864: Sand Creek massacre; 500 or more Cheyenne were killed1876: Sitting Bull's warriors defeated Custer's troops at Little Big Horn1884: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published1892: Telephone service began between Chicago and New York1900: Sigmund Freud pioneered psychoanalysis1903: United States and Panama signed Canal Treaty Further Reading booksAndrews, Ralph W., Indian Leaders Who Helped Shape America, 1600-1900, Seattle, Superior Publishers, 1971.Dockstader, Frederick J., Great North American Indians, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977.Edmunds, R. David, American Indian Leaders: Studies in Diversity, Lincoln, University of Nebraska, 1980.Hagan, William T., Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief, Norman, University of Oklahoma, 1993. |