Quanah Parker (c. late 1840s - February 23, 1911) was a Native American leader, the boy of Comanche chief Peta Nocona and "Anglo-Texan" Cynthia Ann Parker, & a go chief of the Quahadi Comanche Indians.

Quanah Parker's mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, was a member of the big Parker frontier personal that settled within east Texas in the 1830s. She was captured around 1836 by Comanches during a raid of Fort Parker near present-day Groesbeck, Texas. She was given a Indian title Nautdah. Cynthia Ann was in time married to her warrior capturer, Puhtocnocony (known as Peta Nocona by the whites). Within 1860, Petthe Nocona was killed around a battle against Texas Rangers under Lawrence Sullivan Ross. A triumph resulted in the recapture of Cynthia Ann. Orphan, Quanah took refuge by using a Quahadi Comanches. Quanah Parker became the leader of the Quahadi, & led the children with success for the total of years. Sustaining their food source depleted, & under constant pressure from either a army, a Quahadi Comanches eventually fell back & around 1875 moved to a reservation within southwestern Oklahoma. Parker's was a survive tribe of the Staked Plains or even Llano Estacado to come to the reservation. Quanah was known as chief on top all the Comanches on the reservation, & proved to exist as the emphatic, resourceful & a cappella leader. Across caring investments, he became peradventure a moneyed American Indian of his day in the United States. Quanah embraced good deal of whiten culture, & was swell respected per whites. Still, he rejected each monogamy and Christianity. He got sevener married woman & twenty 5 tikes & belonged to the peyote-eating Native American Church. One of his sons, White Parker, became a Methodist minister.

Quanah Parker was natural former between 1845 and 1849 inside the Wichita mountaaround region of what is okay, Oklahoma, & died in 1911 in Oklahoma. Within 1957, both he & his mother were re-interred at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

A town of Quanah, Texas, county seat of Hardeman County, was named for Quanah Parker.