CHIEF QUANAH PARKER

CHIEF QUANAH PARKER

from Del Abe Jones

Born around Eighteen forty-five

In what is now Oklahoma

To captive Cynthia Ann Parker

And Father, Chief Nocona.



Raised in Ancient Tribal ways

Learned to ride by three or four

His Band following the Buffalo

Trading with other Tribes and more.



While avoiding Army Troopers

He was taught of weaponry

The lance, knife, bow and arrow

The choice of the Comanche.



Although they had some guns, too

They didn’t trust the aim

While galloping on horseback

Into a Battle’s deadly game.



His Mother, taken as a child

Could not teach, the white man’s way

Learning from Braves of their conquests

And longing to join them one day.



His Mother and Sister were stolen

And when his Father was killed

In the raid by the Texas Rangers

His hatred of the white was instilled.



Eager to seek out his revenge

On the scourge of the white man

Who wreaked death and their disease

With their ethnic cleansing plan.



He saw the killing of the Buffalo

That once covered the open plain

Slaughtered into near extinction

Never to return to roam again.



During his youth warfare was constant

Treaties were made, only to be broken

Lies told in the form of promises

When the white man’s word was spoken.



Time and again, Peace was made

With other Tribes and with the whites

While all the while they were provoked

And stripped of all their Human Rights.



After his Band lost many members

He joined the Quahada Comanche

Of whom his Father had been Chief

Back when they had lived Free.



He refused to accept a treaty

To confine them to a reservation

As he became the last Chief

Of the whole Comanche Nation.



He remained on the warpath

Raiding Texas and Mexico

Outwitting the Army and others

Wherever he made the blood flow.



He was almost killed in Texas

When he attacked Adobe Wells

Against some Buffalo Hunters

That’s what the story tells.



By Eighteen and seventy-five

The band was starving and weary

The Army asked for their surrender

And to sign a Peace Treaty.



Quanah rode out to a mesa

And saw a Wolf coming his way

Then turn and trot to the northeast

Towards where Fort Sill lay.



Overhead an Eagle glided lazily

Then, towards the Fort took wing

Quanah thought this was a sign

The kind the gods would bring.



In June, Eighteen seventy-five

He surrendered with his Band

To travel down the white man’s road

Into a strange and unknown land.



He learned the English language

And lobbied Congress for his Nation

He invested in a railroad

Was made Judge on the Reservation.



He learned of the way of politics

Became friends with the President

But older Chiefs thought him too young

And his white blood, they did resent.



In Ninety-two they split the Tribe

One faction on his side, one not

Those who thought he’d sold them out

And all those with whom, he’d fought.



He was a great Chief and Warrior

Who never forgot old traditions

But still able to bend enough

To survive those new conditions.



He was beloved by his People

And respected by old enemies

Whose word could be trusted

And who lived by signed treaties.



He passed in Nineteen eleven

But leaves a Great legacy

Which lives on in every member

Of the Tribe of the Comanche.







Today the bodies of Chief Quanah and his Mother lie side by side at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

The Comanche reservation was closed in 1901 with 10,000 or so surviving members, half of whom still live on their own property in Oklahoma.




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