Cynthia Ann Parker Research Paper
A little girl's life that changed in a matter of minutes,and all she could do is let the wind carry her. Cynthia Ann Parker, a true pioneer women that loved her new life with her new ecstatic culture. A pure European girl,Cynthia Ann Parker was born in Crawford County, Illinois.At the age of ten on May 19,1836 the Comanche Indians burnt her family home where she was born and raised,and kidnapped her and her sibling. She was taken along with siblings back to the Indian reservation. Cynthia was held captive for six years, during that time she was introduced to the way of the Comanche Indians learning how they made there homes and killed their food and the games they played as children. Cynthia became accustomed to this life while all other
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Neighbors learned that Cynthia was apart of the Tenawa Comanche. Neighbors was told the only force would induce her to be release from the tribe.She wasn't force to leave her lifestyle again.She married Peta Nocona and eventually have two Indian sons,Quanah Parker and Pecos and have a daughter Topsannah.On December 18,1860 The Texas Ranger attack a Comanche tribe hunting at Mule Creek.The Rangers capture three of the supposed Indian. They were looking over them and saw a blue eyed white woman that spoke fluent English with hero infant daughter. Isaac Parker later identified as Cynthia uncle.Cynthia would be place with her uncle in Birdsville only if the military interpreter Horace P. Jones sons were brought to him if they were found.After that she was photographed going through Fort Worth with her breastfeeding her daughter and her hair-cut short it was a Comanche sign of mourning.In 1861,a texas legislature gave Cynthia Ann a grant for hundred dollars for five years for league land. But she was never reconciled to living in white society and made several unsuccessful attempts to flee to her Comanche family. After three months at Birdville, her brother Silas took
Neighbors learned that Cynthia was apart of the Tenawa Comanche. Neighbors was told the only force would induce her to be release from the tribe.She wasn't force to leave her lifestyle again.She married Peta Nocona and eventually have two Indian sons,Quanah Parker and Pecos and have a daughter Topsannah.On December 18,1860 The Texas Ranger attack a Comanche tribe hunting at Mule Creek.The Rangers capture three of the supposed Indian. They were looking over them and saw a blue eyed white woman that spoke fluent English with hero infant daughter. Isaac Parker later identified as Cynthia uncle.Cynthia would be place with her uncle in Birdsville only if the military interpreter Horace P. Jones sons were brought to him if they were found.After that she was photographed going through Fort Worth with her breastfeeding her daughter and her hair-cut short it was a Comanche sign of mourning.In 1861,a texas legislature gave Cynthia Ann a grant for hundred dollars for five years for league land. But she was never reconciled to living in white society and made several unsuccessful attempts to flee to her Comanche family. After three months at Birdville, her brother Silas took