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.

2025年2月19日 · Quanah Parker (born 1848?, near Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.—died February 23, 1911, Cache, near Fort Sill, Oklahoma) was a Comanche leader who, as the last chief of the Kwahadi (Quahadi) band, mounted an unsuccessful war against white expansion in northwestern Texas (1874–75).

2024年8月29日 · The most famous of the Comanches was Quanah Parker, who led them in their last days as an independent power and into life on reservations. He became one of the chief representatives for all Native American people, along with others like Geronimo.

The last Chief of the Quahadi Comanche, Quanah Parker, was both a major resistor to white settlers and a leader in the tribe’s adjustment to reservation life. Quanah was born around 1845 to Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white captive of the Comanche near the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma.

2021年1月7日 · Nomadic hunter of the Llano Estacado, leader of the Quahada assault on Adobe Walls in 1874 (see RED RIVER WAR), cattle rancher, entrepreneur, and friend of American presidents, Quanah Parker was truly a man of two worlds. The name Quanah means "smell" or …

2020年1月14日 · Quanah Parker was a man of two societies and two centuries: traditional Comanche and white America, 19th century and 20th. He was a respected leader in all of those realms. Born around 1848 in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma, Quanah was the son of Comanche war chief Peta Nocona and his wife Nautda (“Someone Found”), a white woman ...

2018年9月20日 · Half-white but raised a Comanche, Quanah Parker led the "Lords of the Plains" in times of war and peace and knew enough about the white man’s world to become a successful cattleman.

2018年5月17日 · Quanah Parker (died 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.

Quanah Parker. ca. 1845–February 23, 1911. Born about 1845, Comanche leader Quanah Parker lived two vastly different lives: the first as a warrior among the Plains Indians of Texas, and the second as a pragmatic leader who sought a place for his people in a rapidly changing America.

A Comanche warrior and political leader, Quanah Parker served as the last official principal chief of his tribe. He was the son of Peta Nocona, a Comanche chief, and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white captive of the Comanches.