![]() In civilian life, he gained wealth as a rancher, settling near Cache, Oklahoma. He became a primary emissary of southwest indigenous Americans to the United States legislature. Quanah Parker was never elected chief by his people but was appointed by the federal government as principal chief of the entire Comanche Nation. With European-Americans hunting American bison, the Comanches' primary sustenance, into near extinction, Quanah Parker eventually surrendered and peaceably led the Kwahadi to the reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. ![]() ![]() Following the apprehension of several Kiowa chiefs in 1871, Quanah Parker emerged as a dominant figure in the Red River War, clashing repeatedly with Colonel Ranald S. ![]() ![]() 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 a nine-year-old child and assimilated into the Nokoni tribe. 1845 – February 23, 1911) was a war leader of the Kwahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche Nation. Quanah Parker (Comanche kwana, "smell, odor") ( c. ![]()
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