Peta Nocona

rdf:langString Peta Nocona

rdf:langString Peta Nocona (Lone Wanderer)

rdf:langString Cynthia Ann Parker

rdf:langString Peta Nocona

rdf:langString Kwahadi Comanche

rdf:langString ca. 1820

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rdf:langString Pecos

rdf:langString Summer Moon Quanah Parker

rdf:langString Topsannah

rdf:langString ca. 1864

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rdf:langString Father of the last Comanche chief Quanah Parker

rdf:langString White Heron, Cynthia Ann Parker or "Naduah"

rdf:langString Peta Nocona (circa 1820–1864), son to Iron Jacket, was a chief of the Comanche Kwahadi division. He married Cynthia Ann Parker, who had been taken as a captive in a raid and was adopted into the tribe by Tabby-nocca's family. Among their children was Quanah Parker, the last war chief of the Comanche. Peta Nocona chose his wife from among the members of the Nokoni band. He led his tribe during the extensive Indian Wars in Texas, from the late 1840s until the 1860s, as the United States tried to suppress his people. He was the son of the Quahadi Comanche chief Iron Jacket. He became so renowned that a legend said that his band, the Nokoni (or Wanderers, or Travellers) band, were named for him, but they had long antedated him. The city of Nocona, Texas is named after him. Despite Sul Ross's claim that Peta Nocona was killed at Pease River, his son insisted he was not present, and died several years later. This claim is supported by Texas historian John Henry Brown. Brown had already disputed the identity of the person killed at Mule Creek, before Quanah Parker came onto the reservation, stating he was told the name of the man killed at Pease River was Mo-he-ew, not Peta Nocona. Quanah Parker then wrote an affidavit disputing his father's death: "while I was too young to remember the chief, it is likely that Brown was correct" (but the killed warrior's name results to have been Nobah, a former captive adopted in the tribe).

rdf:langString Died from infection due to battle wound