Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Chief Peta Peutochonne NOCONA

1.   Chief Peta Peutochonne was of the Quahada Comanche tribe....rumored to be a physically gigantic man.

2.   He refused to accept the provisions of the 1867 Treaty of Medicine Lodge which confined the Southern Plains Indians to a reservation.

3.   He was almost killed during the attack on buffalo hunters at Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle in 1874.

4.   His son, Quanah repeatedly reported that his father was not killed at Pease River as many claim, and further stated that it was 3 to 4 years later and that he had seen him die from an infected war wound, but more from a broken heart at losing his family.

5.   Nacona, Texas is named after the Noconi leader.


Cynthia Ann PARKER

1.   In an incursion in the summer of 1835/1836, the Comanches attacked a small settlement on Navosota River in East Texas, known from its founder as Fort Parker near present-day Grosebeck, Limestone, Texas,  and carried off two children of which one was Cynthia Ann who was about ten years old at the time, later became the wife of Chief Peta Peutochonne Nocona.

2.   She was given the Indian name of Nadiah translated to mean "someone found".

3.   Cynthia Ann lived with the Comanches for some 24 years.

4.   At age 34 Cynthia and her young infant daughter, "Prairie Flower" was re-captured and rescued  by The Texas Rangers led by Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross during an 1860 raid on the Pease River in Norwest Texas and brought back to her biological family....first, to her uncle Isaac Parker who lived near Birdville, Texas.

5.   In 1861, the Texas legislature granted her a league (abount 4,400 acres) of land, a pension of $100 per year for the next five years and made her cousins, Isaac Duke Parker and Benjamin F. Parker, her legal guardians.         

6.  Cynthia Ann never adapted to her new life among the whites, and attempted to escape on several occasions....because she longed to take her young daughter and return home!   She grieved with wailing prayers and self-mutilation.    Her brother, Silas Jr. was appointed her guardian in 1862 and took her to his home in Van Zandt County.   When Silas was mustered into the Confederate Army, she went to live with her sister, Orlena.

7.  The main cause of Cynthia's unhappiness was that she missed her sons and never knew what happened to them.

8.   In 1864, her daughter, Prairie Flower, caught influenza and died from pneumonia.   In her grief, Cynthia Ann stopped eating.   She became sick and died that same year.    She was buried in Fosterville Cemetery in Anderson County, Texas near Frankston.   Her son Quanah, moved her body in 1910 to the Post Oak Cemetery near Cache, Oklahoma...Fort Sill Military Cemetery where he too was bured by her and his sister.  Thanks to her son, she was finally reunited with her Comanche family.


Tir-Ha-Yah-Gua-Hip "Horseback" NOCONA

1.    It is unproven that he was a child of this family.


Toh-Tsee-Ah NOCONA

1.   This child may be the same as Prairie Flower below.


Cynthia Ann PARKER

1.   In an incursion in the summer of 1835/1836, the Comanches attacked a small settlement on Navosota River in East Texas, known from its founder as Fort Parker near present-day Grosebeck, Limestone, Texas,  and carried off two children of which one was Cynthia Ann who was about ten years old at the time, later became the wife of Chief Peta Peutochonne Nocona.

2.   She was given the Indian name of Nadiah translated to mean "someone found".

3.   Cynthia Ann lived with the Comanches for some 24 years.

4.   At age 34 Cynthia and her young infant daughter, "Prairie Flower" was re-captured and rescued  by The Texas Rangers led by Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross during an 1860 raid on the Pease River in Norwest Texas and brought back to her biological family....first, to her uncle Isaac Parker who lived near Birdville, Texas.

5.   In 1861, the Texas legislature granted her a league (abount 4,400 acres) of land, a pension of $100 per year for the next five years and made her cousins, Isaac Duke Parker and Benjamin F. Parker, her legal guardians.         

6.  Cynthia Ann never adapted to her new life among the whites, and attempted to escape on several occasions....because she longed to take her young daughter and return home!   She grieved with wailing prayers and self-mutilation.    Her brother, Silas Jr. was appointed her guardian in 1862 and took her to his home in Van Zandt County.   When Silas was mustered into the Confederate Army, she went to live with her sister, Orlena.

7.  The main cause of Cynthia's unhappiness was that she missed her sons and never knew what happened to them.

8.   In 1864, her daughter, Prairie Flower, caught influenza and died from pneumonia.   In her grief, Cynthia Ann stopped eating.   She became sick and died that same year.    She was buried in Fosterville Cemetery in Anderson County, Texas near Frankston.   Her son Quanah, moved her body in 1910 to the Post Oak Cemetery near Cache, Oklahoma...Fort Sill Military Cemetery where he too was bured by her and his sister.  Thanks to her son, she was finally reunited with her Comanche family.


Quanah "Chief of the Nokonis" PARKER

1.  Quanah "kwaina which meant "fragrant" chose to carry his mother's maiden name.

2.  He never lost a battle to the white man.

3   Quanah Parker grew into a leading warrior with the Kwahadi Comanche as the Indian struggles of the Southern Plains moved into their final stages.    In the '60's and early '70's the destruction of the great buffalo herds that was the main source of the Indians' food and shelter was under way and was being taken away by the hide hunters.    The broad & free grasslands were being taken away in war and negotiated from them in treaties.   The end was in sight for the wise, old men in the Comanche teepees.   But, not for Chief Quanah and his Kwahadis.  His battles with the best the Army could send against him went on for years while most of the other chieftains quit and straggled onto the reservations.   He and his tribe roamed over the area where Pampa, Texas stands and ventured as far West as what is now known as Seminole, Texas,  and up into the Indian Territory of Oklahoma.

4.  Reservation agents who were political appointees of the Federal Government tried to destroy all vestiges of Native Amerian life and replace their culture with that of theirs.

5.  Mackenzie sent Jacob J. Sturm, a physician and post interpreter, to solicit the Quahada's surrender to no avail.   However, he did find Quanah whom he called "a young man of much influence with his people" and pleaded his case.   Quanah rode to a mesa, where he saw a wolf come toward him, howl and trot away to the northeast.   Overhead, an eagle glided lazily and then whipped its wings in the direction of Fort Sill.   In the words of Jacob Sturm....Quanah thought this was a sign.    Quamah was no fool.   He could read the signs of the steady march of men and herds that never falterd along the frontier.   So, a special detail of cavalry, under a flag of truce from Fort Sill, met with the Kwahadis who were camped on Blanco Canyon in the Spring of 1875.   They were treated in a peace council and Quanah took the hand of the hated whites in peace.   Then on June 2, 1975,  with some 1,400 horses and his band of some 100 warriors, over 300 women plus many children and old men rode into the army post at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

6.  Now, Quanah was traveling the "white man's road" sort of adopting white man's clothing,  but, not all of their teachings..... he did it his way!   Much to the reservation agents' chargrin, while on official business in Washington, D.C.  he was pressed about his having six living wives.   Some turkey advised him to go back home and pick out his favorite wife and tell the rest of them to take a hike and get out!    After a somber time of meditation probably thinking about all the screaming, kicking, yelling, biting that scorned women would do, his reply was "you choosum and you tellum".    It was never brought up again thus he refused to give up polygamy.

7.  He recognized the inevitable and set out making the best of the situation and was a successful man.   He became very weathy had made some $40,000 dealing in railroad stock, he was a prominent rancher and entrepreneur.    He was a smart, resourceful man and a great leader.  He urged his people to make transition, this time to the white man's way of life.   Under his direction, schools were built and children educated.  He created a ranching industry on the reservation and leased grazing land to the white ranchers.  He showed his people how to build houses and plant crops.   Quanah advocated cooperation with the whites but maintained that the Indians should never abandon their own traditions.  

8.  He is credited as the founder of the Native American Church Movement and adopted & taught the sacred peyote medicine religion, claiming he heard the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.   His most famous teaching was "The White Man goes into his church and talks about Jesus.  The Indian goes into his Tipi and talks to Jesus."

9.  After moving to the reservation, Quanah got in touch with his white relatives.   He spent a few weeks with them, where he studied English & western culture and learned white farming techniques.

10.  Quanah had built a spacious 22 room home outside of Cache, Oklahoma, called the Star House which was moved to Eagle Park in Cache and housed his wives and children (About 25).

11.  Quanah made several trips to Washington, D. C.   He had become a close friend of  President Theodore Roosevelt.  He and a daughter that had been educated  in Philadelphia  (college graduate) was allowed to go to his inaugeration.   They did some hunting together.   The President's favorite song was  Home Home On The Range.   

12.  Quanah was buried beside his mother at Fort Sill, Oklahoma because he could not very easily be buried beside each of his wives.


Quanah "Chief of the Nokonis" PARKER

1.  Quanah "kwaina which meant "fragrant" chose to carry his mother's maiden name.

2.  He never lost a battle to the white man.

3   Quanah Parker grew into a leading warrior with the Kwahadi Comanche as the Indian struggles of the Southern Plains moved into their final stages.    In the '60's and early '70's the destruction of the great buffalo herds that was the main source of the Indians' food and shelter was under way and was being taken away by the hide hunters.    The broad & free grasslands were being taken away in war and negotiated from them in treaties.   The end was in sight for the wise, old men in the Comanche teepees.   But, not for Chief Quanah and his Kwahadis.  His battles with the best the Army could send against him went on for years while most of the other chieftains quit and straggled onto the reservations.   He and his tribe roamed over the area where Pampa, Texas stands and ventured as far West as what is now known as Seminole, Texas,  and up into the Indian Territory of Oklahoma.

4.  Reservation agents who were political appointees of the Federal Government tried to destroy all vestiges of Native Amerian life and replace their culture with that of theirs.

5.  Mackenzie sent Jacob J. Sturm, a physician and post interpreter, to solicit the Quahada's surrender to no avail.   However, he did find Quanah whom he called "a young man of much influence with his people" and pleaded his case.   Quanah rode to a mesa, where he saw a wolf come toward him, howl and trot away to the northeast.   Overhead, an eagle glided lazily and then whipped its wings in the direction of Fort Sill.   In the words of Jacob Sturm....Quanah thought this was a sign.    Quamah was no fool.   He could read the signs of the steady march of men and herds that never falterd along the frontier.   So, a special detail of cavalry, under a flag of truce from Fort Sill, met with the Kwahadis who were camped on Blanco Canyon in the Spring of 1875.   They were treated in a peace council and Quanah took the hand of the hated whites in peace.   Then on June 2, 1975,  with some 1,400 horses and his band of some 100 warriors, over 300 women plus many children and old men rode into the army post at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

6.  Now, Quanah was traveling the "white man's road" sort of adopting white man's clothing,  but, not all of their teachings..... he did it his way!   Much to the reservation agents' chargrin, while on official business in Washington, D.C.  he was pressed about his having six living wives.   Some turkey advised him to go back home and pick out his favorite wife and tell the rest of them to take a hike and get out!    After a somber time of meditation probably thinking about all the screaming, kicking, yelling, biting that scorned women would do, his reply was "you choosum and you tellum".    It was never brought up again thus he refused to give up polygamy.

7.  He recognized the inevitable and set out making the best of the situation and was a successful man.   He became very weathy had made some $40,000 dealing in railroad stock, he was a prominent rancher and entrepreneur.    He was a smart, resourceful man and a great leader.  He urged his people to make transition, this time to the white man's way of life.   Under his direction, schools were built and children educated.  He created a ranching industry on the reservation and leased grazing land to the white ranchers.  He showed his people how to build houses and plant crops.   Quanah advocated cooperation with the whites but maintained that the Indians should never abandon their own traditions.  

8.  He is credited as the founder of the Native American Church Movement and adopted & taught the sacred peyote medicine religion, claiming he heard the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.   His most famous teaching was "The White Man goes into his church and talks about Jesus.  The Indian goes into his Tipi and talks to Jesus."

9.  After moving to the reservation, Quanah got in touch with his white relatives.   He spent a few weeks with them, where he studied English & western culture and learned white farming techniques.

10.  Quanah had built a spacious 22 room home outside of Cache, Oklahoma, called the Star House which was moved to Eagle Park in Cache and housed his wives and children (About 25).

11.  Quanah made several trips to Washington, D. C.   He had become a close friend of  President Theodore Roosevelt.  He and a daughter that had been educated  in Philadelphia  (college graduate) was allowed to go to his inaugeration.   They did some hunting together.   The President's favorite song was  Home Home On The Range.   

12.  Quanah was buried beside his mother at Fort Sill, Oklahoma because he could not very easily be buried beside each of his wives.


Quanah "Chief of the Nokonis" PARKER

1.  Quanah "kwaina which meant "fragrant" chose to carry his mother's maiden name.

2.  He never lost a battle to the white man.

3   Quanah Parker grew into a leading warrior with the Kwahadi Comanche as the Indian struggles of the Southern Plains moved into their final stages.    In the '60's and early '70's the destruction of the great buffalo herds that was the main source of the Indians' food and shelter was under way and was being taken away by the hide hunters.    The broad & free grasslands were being taken away in war and negotiated from them in treaties.   The end was in sight for the wise, old men in the Comanche teepees.   But, not for Chief Quanah and his Kwahadis.  His battles with the best the Army could send against him went on for years while most of the other chieftains quit and straggled onto the reservations.   He and his tribe roamed over the area where Pampa, Texas stands and ventured as far West as what is now known as Seminole, Texas,  and up into the Indian Territory of Oklahoma.

4.  Reservation agents who were political appointees of the Federal Government tried to destroy all vestiges of Native Amerian life and replace their culture with that of theirs.

5.  Mackenzie sent Jacob J. Sturm, a physician and post interpreter, to solicit the Quahada's surrender to no avail.   However, he did find Quanah whom he called "a young man of much influence with his people" and pleaded his case.   Quanah rode to a mesa, where he saw a wolf come toward him, howl and trot away to the northeast.   Overhead, an eagle glided lazily and then whipped its wings in the direction of Fort Sill.   In the words of Jacob Sturm....Quanah thought this was a sign.    Quamah was no fool.   He could read the signs of the steady march of men and herds that never falterd along the frontier.   So, a special detail of cavalry, under a flag of truce from Fort Sill, met with the Kwahadis who were camped on Blanco Canyon in the Spring of 1875.   They were treated in a peace council and Quanah took the hand of the hated whites in peace.   Then on June 2, 1975,  with some 1,400 horses and his band of some 100 warriors, over 300 women plus many children and old men rode into the army post at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

6.  Now, Quanah was traveling the "white man's road" sort of adopting white man's clothing,  but, not all of their teachings..... he did it his way!   Much to the reservation agents' chargrin, while on official business in Washington, D.C.  he was pressed about his having six living wives.   Some turkey advised him to go back home and pick out his favorite wife and tell the rest of them to take a hike and get out!    After a somber time of meditation probably thinking about all the screaming, kicking, yelling, biting that scorned women would do, his reply was "you choosum and you tellum".    It was never brought up again thus he refused to give up polygamy.

7.  He recognized the inevitable and set out making the best of the situation and was a successful man.   He became very weathy had made some $40,000 dealing in railroad stock, he was a prominent rancher and entrepreneur.    He was a smart, resourceful man and a great leader.  He urged his people to make transition, this time to the white man's way of life.   Under his direction, schools were built and children educated.  He created a ranching industry on the reservation and leased grazing land to the white ranchers.  He showed his people how to build houses and plant crops.   Quanah advocated cooperation with the whites but maintained that the Indians should never abandon their own traditions.  

8.  He is credited as the founder of the Native American Church Movement and adopted & taught the sacred peyote medicine religion, claiming he heard the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.   His most famous teaching was "The White Man goes into his church and talks about Jesus.  The Indian goes into his Tipi and talks to Jesus."

9.  After moving to the reservation, Quanah got in touch with his white relatives.   He spent a few weeks with them, where he studied English & western culture and learned white farming techniques.

10.  Quanah had built a spacious 22 room home outside of Cache, Oklahoma, called the Star House which was moved to Eagle Park in Cache and housed his wives and children (About 25).

11.  Quanah made several trips to Washington, D. C.   He had become a close friend of  President Theodore Roosevelt.  He and a daughter that had been educated  in Philadelphia  (college graduate) was allowed to go to his inaugeration.   They did some hunting together.   The President's favorite song was  Home Home On The Range.   

12.  Quanah was buried beside his mother at Fort Sill, Oklahoma because he could not very easily be buried beside each of his wives.


Quanah "Chief of the Nokonis" PARKER

1.  Quanah "kwaina which meant "fragrant" chose to carry his mother's maiden name.

2.  He never lost a battle to the white man.

3   Quanah Parker grew into a leading warrior with the Kwahadi Comanche as the Indian struggles of the Southern Plains moved into their final stages.    In the '60's and early '70's the destruction of the great buffalo herds that was the main source of the Indians' food and shelter was under way and was being taken away by the hide hunters.    The broad & free grasslands were being taken away in war and negotiated from them in treaties.   The end was in sight for the wise, old men in the Comanche teepees.   But, not for Chief Quanah and his Kwahadis.  His battles with the best the Army could send against him went on for years while most of the other chieftains quit and straggled onto the reservations.   He and his tribe roamed over the area where Pampa, Texas stands and ventured as far West as what is now known as Seminole, Texas,  and up into the Indian Territory of Oklahoma.

4.  Reservation agents who were political appointees of the Federal Government tried to destroy all vestiges of Native Amerian life and replace their culture with that of theirs.

5.  Mackenzie sent Jacob J. Sturm, a physician and post interpreter, to solicit the Quahada's surrender to no avail.   However, he did find Quanah whom he called "a young man of much influence with his people" and pleaded his case.   Quanah rode to a mesa, where he saw a wolf come toward him, howl and trot away to the northeast.   Overhead, an eagle glided lazily and then whipped its wings in the direction of Fort Sill.   In the words of Jacob Sturm....Quanah thought this was a sign.    Quamah was no fool.   He could read the signs of the steady march of men and herds that never falterd along the frontier.   So, a special detail of cavalry, under a flag of truce from Fort Sill, met with the Kwahadis who were camped on Blanco Canyon in the Spring of 1875.   They were treated in a peace council and Quanah took the hand of the hated whites in peace.   Then on June 2, 1975,  with some 1,400 horses and his band of some 100 warriors, over 300 women plus many children and old men rode into the army post at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

6.  Now, Quanah was traveling the "white man's road" sort of adopting white man's clothing,  but, not all of their teachings..... he did it his way!   Much to the reservation agents' chargrin, while on official business in Washington, D.C.  he was pressed about his having six living wives.   Some turkey advised him to go back home and pick out his favorite wife and tell the rest of them to take a hike and get out!    After a somber time of meditation probably thinking about all the screaming, kicking, yelling, biting that scorned women would do, his reply was "you choosum and you tellum".    It was never brought up again thus he refused to give up polygamy.

7.  He recognized the inevitable and set out making the best of the situation and was a successful man.   He became very weathy had made some $40,000 dealing in railroad stock, he was a prominent rancher and entrepreneur.    He was a smart, resourceful man and a great leader.  He urged his people to make transition, this time to the white man's way of life.   Under his direction, schools were built and children educated.  He created a ranching industry on the reservation and leased grazing land to the white ranchers.  He showed his people how to build houses and plant crops.   Quanah advocated cooperation with the whites but maintained that the Indians should never abandon their own traditions.  

8.  He is credited as the founder of the Native American Church Movement and adopted & taught the sacred peyote medicine religion, claiming he heard the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.   His most famous teaching was "The White Man goes into his church and talks about Jesus.  The Indian goes into his Tipi and talks to Jesus."

9.  After moving to the reservation, Quanah got in touch with his white relatives.   He spent a few weeks with them, where he studied English & western culture and learned white farming techniques.

10.  Quanah had built a spacious 22 room home outside of Cache, Oklahoma, called the Star House which was moved to Eagle Park in Cache and housed his wives and children (About 25).

11.  Quanah made several trips to Washington, D. C.   He had become a close friend of  President Theodore Roosevelt.  He and a daughter that had been educated  in Philadelphia  (college graduate) was allowed to go to his inaugeration.   They did some hunting together.   The President's favorite song was  Home Home On The Range.   

12.  Quanah was buried beside his mother at Fort Sill, Oklahoma because he could not very easily be buried beside each of his wives.


Quanah "Chief of the Nokonis" PARKER

1.  Quanah "kwaina which meant "fragrant" chose to carry his mother's maiden name.

2.  He never lost a battle to the white man.

3   Quanah Parker grew into a leading warrior with the Kwahadi Comanche as the Indian struggles of the Southern Plains moved into their final stages.    In the '60's and early '70's the destruction of the great buffalo herds that was the main source of the Indians' food and shelter was under way and was being taken away by the hide hunters.    The broad & free grasslands were being taken away in war and negotiated from them in treaties.   The end was in sight for the wise, old men in the Comanche teepees.   But, not for Chief Quanah and his Kwahadis.  His battles with the best the Army could send against him went on for years while most of the other chieftains quit and straggled onto the reservations.   He and his tribe roamed over the area where Pampa, Texas stands and ventured as far West as what is now known as Seminole, Texas,  and up into the Indian Territory of Oklahoma.

4.  Reservation agents who were political appointees of the Federal Government tried to destroy all vestiges of Native Amerian life and replace their culture with that of theirs.

5.  Mackenzie sent Jacob J. Sturm, a physician and post interpreter, to solicit the Quahada's surrender to no avail.   However, he did find Quanah whom he called "a young man of much influence with his people" and pleaded his case.   Quanah rode to a mesa, where he saw a wolf come toward him, howl and trot away to the northeast.   Overhead, an eagle glided lazily and then whipped its wings in the direction of Fort Sill.   In the words of Jacob Sturm....Quanah thought this was a sign.    Quamah was no fool.   He could read the signs of the steady march of men and herds that never falterd along the frontier.   So, a special detail of cavalry, under a flag of truce from Fort Sill, met with the Kwahadis who were camped on Blanco Canyon in the Spring of 1875.   They were treated in a peace council and Quanah took the hand of the hated whites in peace.   Then on June 2, 1975,  with some 1,400 horses and his band of some 100 warriors, over 300 women plus many children and old men rode into the army post at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

6.  Now, Quanah was traveling the "white man's road" sort of adopting white man's clothing,  but, not all of their teachings..... he did it his way!   Much to the reservation agents' chargrin, while on official business in Washington, D.C.  he was pressed about his having six living wives.   Some turkey advised him to go back home and pick out his favorite wife and tell the rest of them to take a hike and get out!    After a somber time of meditation probably thinking about all the screaming, kicking, yelling, biting that scorned women would do, his reply was "you choosum and you tellum".    It was never brought up again thus he refused to give up polygamy.

7.  He recognized the inevitable and set out making the best of the situation and was a successful man.   He became very weathy had made some $40,000 dealing in railroad stock, he was a prominent rancher and entrepreneur.    He was a smart, resourceful man and a great leader.  He urged his people to make transition, this time to the white man's way of life.   Under his direction, schools were built and children educated.  He created a ranching industry on the reservation and leased grazing land to the white ranchers.  He showed his people how to build houses and plant crops.   Quanah advocated cooperation with the whites but maintained that the Indians should never abandon their own traditions.  

8.  He is credited as the founder of the Native American Church Movement and adopted & taught the sacred peyote medicine religion, claiming he heard the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.   His most famous teaching was "The White Man goes into his church and talks about Jesus.  The Indian goes into his Tipi and talks to Jesus."

9.  After moving to the reservation, Quanah got in touch with his white relatives.   He spent a few weeks with them, where he studied English & western culture and learned white farming techniques.

10.  Quanah had built a spacious 22 room home outside of Cache, Oklahoma, called the Star House which was moved to Eagle Park in Cache and housed his wives and children (About 25).

11.  Quanah made several trips to Washington, D. C.   He had become a close friend of  President Theodore Roosevelt.  He and a daughter that had been educated  in Philadelphia  (college graduate) was allowed to go to his inaugeration.   They did some hunting together.   The President's favorite song was  Home Home On The Range.   

12.  Quanah was buried beside his mother at Fort Sill, Oklahoma because he could not very easily be buried beside each of his wives.


Quanah "Chief of the Nokonis" PARKER

1.  Quanah "kwaina which meant "fragrant" chose to carry his mother's maiden name.

2.  He never lost a battle to the white man.

3   Quanah Parker grew into a leading warrior with the Kwahadi Comanche as the Indian struggles of the Southern Plains moved into their final stages.    In the '60's and early '70's the destruction of the great buffalo herds that was the main source of the Indians' food and shelter was under way and was being taken away by the hide hunters.    The broad & free grasslands were being taken away in war and negotiated from them in treaties.   The end was in sight for the wise, old men in the Comanche teepees.   But, not for Chief Quanah and his Kwahadis.  His battles with the best the Army could send against him went on for years while most of the other chieftains quit and straggled onto the reservations.   He and his tribe roamed over the area where Pampa, Texas stands and ventured as far West as what is now known as Seminole, Texas,  and up into the Indian Territory of Oklahoma.

4.  Reservation agents who were political appointees of the Federal Government tried to destroy all vestiges of Native Amerian life and replace their culture with that of theirs.

5.  Mackenzie sent Jacob J. Sturm, a physician and post interpreter, to solicit the Quahada's surrender to no avail.   However, he did find Quanah whom he called "a young man of much influence with his people" and pleaded his case.   Quanah rode to a mesa, where he saw a wolf come toward him, howl and trot away to the northeast.   Overhead, an eagle glided lazily and then whipped its wings in the direction of Fort Sill.   In the words of Jacob Sturm....Quanah thought this was a sign.    Quamah was no fool.   He could read the signs of the steady march of men and herds that never falterd along the frontier.   So, a special detail of cavalry, under a flag of truce from Fort Sill, met with the Kwahadis who were camped on Blanco Canyon in the Spring of 1875.   They were treated in a peace council and Quanah took the hand of the hated whites in peace.   Then on June 2, 1975,  with some 1,400 horses and his band of some 100 warriors, over 300 women plus many children and old men rode into the army post at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

6.  Now, Quanah was traveling the "white man's road" sort of adopting white man's clothing,  but, not all of their teachings..... he did it his way!   Much to the reservation agents' chargrin, while on official business in Washington, D.C.  he was pressed about his having six living wives.   Some turkey advised him to go back home and pick out his favorite wife and tell the rest of them to take a hike and get out!    After a somber time of meditation probably thinking about all the screaming, kicking, yelling, biting that scorned women would do, his reply was "you choosum and you tellum".    It was never brought up again thus he refused to give up polygamy.

7.  He recognized the inevitable and set out making the best of the situation and was a successful man.   He became very weathy had made some $40,000 dealing in railroad stock, he was a prominent rancher and entrepreneur.    He was a smart, resourceful man and a great leader.  He urged his people to make transition, this time to the white man's way of life.   Under his direction, schools were built and children educated.  He created a ranching industry on the reservation and leased grazing land to the white ranchers.  He showed his people how to build houses and plant crops.   Quanah advocated cooperation with the whites but maintained that the Indians should never abandon their own traditions.  

8.  He is credited as the founder of the Native American Church Movement and adopted & taught the sacred peyote medicine religion, claiming he heard the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.   His most famous teaching was "The White Man goes into his church and talks about Jesus.  The Indian goes into his Tipi and talks to Jesus."

9.  After moving to the reservation, Quanah got in touch with his white relatives.   He spent a few weeks with them, where he studied English & western culture and learned white farming techniques.

10.  Quanah had built a spacious 22 room home outside of Cache, Oklahoma, called the Star House which was moved to Eagle Park in Cache and housed his wives and children (About 25).

11.  Quanah made several trips to Washington, D. C.   He had become a close friend of  President Theodore Roosevelt.  He and a daughter that had been educated  in Philadelphia  (college graduate) was allowed to go to his inaugeration.   They did some hunting together.   The President's favorite song was  Home Home On The Range.   

12.  Quanah was buried beside his mother at Fort Sill, Oklahoma because he could not very easily be buried beside each of his wives.


Wec-Keah

1.   Wec-Keah was espoused to another warrior  when she and Quanah eloped.


Rev. White PARKER

1.   Rev/ White Parker was a Methodist Minister.


Quanah "Chief of the Nokonis" PARKER

1.  Quanah "kwaina which meant "fragrant" chose to carry his mother's maiden name.

2.  He never lost a battle to the white man.

3   Quanah Parker grew into a leading warrior with the Kwahadi Comanche as the Indian struggles of the Southern Plains moved into their final stages.    In the '60's and early '70's the destruction of the great buffalo herds that was the main source of the Indians' food and shelter was under way and was being taken away by the hide hunters.    The broad & free grasslands were being taken away in war and negotiated from them in treaties.   The end was in sight for the wise, old men in the Comanche teepees.   But, not for Chief Quanah and his Kwahadis.  His battles with the best the Army could send against him went on for years while most of the other chieftains quit and straggled onto the reservations.   He and his tribe roamed over the area where Pampa, Texas stands and ventured as far West as what is now known as Seminole, Texas,  and up into the Indian Territory of Oklahoma.

4.  Reservation agents who were political appointees of the Federal Government tried to destroy all vestiges of Native Amerian life and replace their culture with that of theirs.

5.  Mackenzie sent Jacob J. Sturm, a physician and post interpreter, to solicit the Quahada's surrender to no avail.   However, he did find Quanah whom he called "a young man of much influence with his people" and pleaded his case.   Quanah rode to a mesa, where he saw a wolf come toward him, howl and trot away to the northeast.   Overhead, an eagle glided lazily and then whipped its wings in the direction of Fort Sill.   In the words of Jacob Sturm....Quanah thought this was a sign.    Quamah was no fool.   He could read the signs of the steady march of men and herds that never falterd along the frontier.   So, a special detail of cavalry, under a flag of truce from Fort Sill, met with the Kwahadis who were camped on Blanco Canyon in the Spring of 1875.   They were treated in a peace council and Quanah took the hand of the hated whites in peace.   Then on June 2, 1975,  with some 1,400 horses and his band of some 100 warriors, over 300 women plus many children and old men rode into the army post at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

6.  Now, Quanah was traveling the "white man's road" sort of adopting white man's clothing,  but, not all of their teachings..... he did it his way!   Much to the reservation agents' chargrin, while on official business in Washington, D.C.  he was pressed about his having six living wives.   Some turkey advised him to go back home and pick out his favorite wife and tell the rest of them to take a hike and get out!    After a somber time of meditation probably thinking about all the screaming, kicking, yelling, biting that scorned women would do, his reply was "you choosum and you tellum".    It was never brought up again thus he refused to give up polygamy.

7.  He recognized the inevitable and set out making the best of the situation and was a successful man.   He became very weathy had made some $40,000 dealing in railroad stock, he was a prominent rancher and entrepreneur.    He was a smart, resourceful man and a great leader.  He urged his people to make transition, this time to the white man's way of life.   Under his direction, schools were built and children educated.  He created a ranching industry on the reservation and leased grazing land to the white ranchers.  He showed his people how to build houses and plant crops.   Quanah advocated cooperation with the whites but maintained that the Indians should never abandon their own traditions.  

8.  He is credited as the founder of the Native American Church Movement and adopted & taught the sacred peyote medicine religion, claiming he heard the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.   His most famous teaching was "The White Man goes into his church and talks about Jesus.  The Indian goes into his Tipi and talks to Jesus."

9.  After moving to the reservation, Quanah got in touch with his white relatives.   He spent a few weeks with them, where he studied English & western culture and learned white farming techniques.

10.  Quanah had built a spacious 22 room home outside of Cache, Oklahoma, called the Star House which was moved to Eagle Park in Cache and housed his wives and children (About 25).

11.  Quanah made several trips to Washington, D. C.   He had become a close friend of  President Theodore Roosevelt.  He and a daughter that had been educated  in Philadelphia  (college graduate) was allowed to go to his inaugeration.   They did some hunting together.   The President's favorite song was  Home Home On The Range.   

12.  Quanah was buried beside his mother at Fort Sill, Oklahoma because he could not very easily be buried beside each of his wives.