Parker, Quanah

Compiled sources of information for Harold Parker, a member of the Comanche Nation, who entered the school on November 8, 1894 and departed on October 18, 1900. No student file or information cards have been found for Harold Parker, but other sources of information show that he was enrolled at Carlisle, including a listing of the group of…

Student information card of Juanada Parker, a member of the Comanche Nation, who entered the school on November 8, 1894 and departed on July 3, 1901. The file indicates Parker was married and living in Lawton, Oklahoma in 1913.

Student information card of Laura Parker, a member of the Comanche Nation, who entered the school on November 8, 1894 and departed on July 3, 1902. The file indicates Parker was married and living in Cache, Oklahoma in 1913.

Student file of Esther Parker, a member of the Comanche Nation, who entered the school on August 19, 1897, and departed on July 3, 1902. The file contains student information cards and a report after leaving indicating Parker was living in North Cache, Oklahoma in 1910. 

Student information card of Esther Parker, a member of the Comanche Nation, who entered the school on August 19, 1897 and departed on July 3, 1902.

Studio portrait of visiting chiefs Quanah Parker (seated in the middle row) and Lone Wolf (standing in the back row, third from the left) with three female students and six male students. The wife of Quanah Parker, Tonarcy, is seated next to him in the center of the photo.

Previous cataloging indicates a date of March 1894 is scratched…

Studio portrait of visiting chiefs Quanah Parker (seated in the middle row) and Lone Wolf (standing in the back row, third from the left) with three female students and six male students. The wife of Quanah Parker, Tonarcy, is seated next to him in the center of the photo.

The National Anthropological Archives version of this image has…

Though previously unidentified, a researcher has offered the following details about this photo. The sitters are all Comanche from Oklahoma. Pictured is Red Elk (seated left), Isatia (sometimes spelled Eshiti or called White Eagle, standing left), Chief Quanah Parker, Harold Parker (student and oldest son of Quanah Parker). The women pictured…

The caption reads: Prominent Indians. Indian Agent and U. S. Indian Att'y.

The printed note reads: Taken at the Kiowa Agency November 26, 1907.

The reverse side contains a note Huston Miller to Moses Friedman sent on June 29, 1913.

Twenty-three individuals including Quanah Parker (Chief of…

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a petition from the Comanche Nation to keep their U.S. Indian Agent George Day.

Also a brief note that a few members of the Agency stopped in Chicago and saw the Carlisle exhibit.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards letter requesting his assistance in having Quanah Parker and Lone Wolf come to Washington D. C. to discuss a proposed treaty before Congress.

Alfred John Standing informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Quanah Parker's daughters will be arriving in Washington D.C. on March 18, 1898.

William A. Mercer notifies the Office of Indian Affairs that he has received the money order reimbursing him for expenses of Quanah Parker and seven others to interview the President.

These materials include a request by newspaper correspondence James H. Trumons of the Lawton Constitution-State Democrat for information on Chief Quanah Parker of the Comanche Nation. A biographical sketch of Chief Parker, appearing in Carlisle's school newspaper the Arrow, was forwarded to Trumons.