Quanah Parker

encyclopedia). The Native American population and culture was suffering due to these new modern afflictions. Although the Native Americans were being seen less of they prevailed and fought against this change. For example, "Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History" gives a blow-by-blow account of the hardscrabble and bloody life on the Texas frontier in the middle decades of the 19th century.” (Found on…

Great Comanche Nation, then it tells the story of one Cynthia Ann Parker, a white woman who was captured as a nine year old girl during a raid by the Comanches. Because she was so young be lost her native tongue and began to speak the language of which Native Americans speak and she became of full fledge member of the tribe, which captured her. She was married to the chief and they had three children, the oldest named Quanah Parker. He became the last and most powerful Comanche chief in American…

Texas History Term Report- The lives of slaves did not change much since Texas obtained its Freedom form Mexican rule, the constitution that was written gave protection to the slave owners while stripping the enslaved people of more rights. “The Texas Legislature passed increasingly restrictive laws governing the lives of free blacks, including a law banishing all free black people from the Republic of Texas.” (Texas State History Museum) Due to the lax regulations to the slaveowners, the…

June 06, 1874 The U.S. Armies job was to try to get the Kiowa, Comanche, Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho back to the reservations in the Indian Territory. The Indian tribes fought one last fight for their native land under the leadership of Chief Quanah Parker. The army and Indians fought over 20 battles on the Texas panhandle around the Red River from 1874 to 1875. HENRY O.FLIPPER 1877 The first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point was Henry O.…