Quanah Dorothy Rothschild Parker was the last leader of the Quahada Comanche Indian. In approximately 1845, he was born to Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker in Elk Stream, south of the Wichita Mountains, currently known as Oklahoma. However, there has been many disputes in regards of his birthday and place. Quanah Parker was a man of two universes. He was a significant figure and he lead his band during hard predicaments like the Comanche resistance to white colonization on the southern plains and in the tribe’s adaption to reservation life. He was a dedicated member of the Peyote Cult and later became a prosperous negotiator with Indian agents, cattle-ranchers, government representatives, and an advocate of education for Native children. …show more content…
His mother was a white woman born into a very influential family in Texas. However, during the raid on Ft. Parker in May of 1936, several of her family members were killed and at the age of 9, she was captivated by the Comanches, raised as an Indian and learned Indian methods for ways of life. She was renamed Preloch and was brought up in a traditional Quahadi village. Quanah’s dad was a Comanche war leader. He transformed into a fight head of the Noconi band of the Comanche's. Despite his blended family line, Quanah's initial life shows up to had been unexceptional for his opportunity and territory. In 1860, Quanah’s father, Chief Peta Nocona, was murdered while protecting the Pease Stream against Texas Officers. This raid was the cause of the detainment of Quanah's mother, Cynthia Ann and sister, Prairie Flower. The assault also destroyed the Noconis and constrained Quanah. He attempted to defend his father’s reputation by insisting that he and Nocona were not present during the attack, however, eyewitnesses refuted that assertion. He tried his best to adjust to the loss of his father, mother and sister. Quanah then became an orphan and was forced to take refuge and depend on the Quahada Comanches of the Llano Estacado to get by. He was constantly taunted for his mixed lineage. Despite the difficulty he experienced, he became a true warrior at a relatively young …show more content…
Quanah and the Quahada Comanche, of whom his father had been chief of, declined the provisions of the 1867 Treaty of Medicine Lodge, which stated that the southern Plains Indians would be restricted to a reservation and transformed into famers in order to emulate white settlers. The “continued to hunt buffalo in the traditional way while raiding settlements.” Quanah was well aware of the lies and deceit from the white men, therefore, he chose to remain on their warpath. He out moved Army Colonel, Ranald S. Mackenzie and was nearly killed during the attack on buffalo hunters at Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle in 1874. For the next seven years Parker's Quahadas “held the Texas plains virtually uncontested.” Col. Mackenzie attempted to track and subdue the Indians in 1871 and 1872 but his plan to do so failed tremendously. The army was unable to find the Indians and on October 9th of 1871, the troopers lost many horses when Quanah and his band raided the campsite. The Indians disappeared onto the plains shortly after and later reattacked the army. Col. Mackenzie ended his search. However, the tribe was determined to maintain their independence and Quahada and a medicine man formed a multi tribal alliance. The plan was to expel the hunters from the plains. But in June of 1874, the plan failed. The alliance “attacked the twenty-eight hunters and one woman housed at Adobe Walls. From the Indians' point of