![]() ![]() ![]() She escaped at least once but was recaptured and brought back. For the remaining 10 years of her life, she mourned for her Comanche family, and refused to adjust to white society. Parker was taken against her will back to her extended biological family. During this raid, the Rangers killed an estimated six to twelve people, mostly women and children. Parker was captured by the Texas Rangers during the Battle of Pease River, also known as the "Pease River Massacre". ![]() They had three children together, including son Quanah Parker, who became the last free Comanche chief. Thoroughly assimilated as Comanche, Parker had married Peta Nocona, a chief. Her Comanche name means "someone found" in English. Twenty-four years later she was discovered and taken captive by Texas Rangers, at approximately age 33, and unwillingly taken back to European-American society. ![]() Parker, Daniel Parker, John Richard BowenĬynthia Ann Parker (Octo– March 1871), also known as Naduah ( Comanche: Narua), was a white woman who was notable for having been captured during the Fort Parker massacre at about age nine, by a Comanche war band and adopted into the tribe. ![]()
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