Comanche Indians in Oklahoma photograph collection, 1887-1920.

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Comanche Indians in Oklahoma photograph collection, 1887-1920.

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Six negative images chiefly relating to Comanche Indians including photographs of Quanah Parker, Fort Sill Indian School, Indians in the local police force, Comanche Reformed Church (formed 1907 in Lawton, Okla.; also known as the Yellow Mission), Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Reservation, and Cache, Okla.

6 negatives.

Museum of the Great Plains

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Fort Sill Indian Boarding School

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First established as a Quaker boarding school in 1871, the Fort Sill Indian School became a nonsectarian institution in 1891 and remained so until closing in 1980. During its long history the school expanded from one building to thirty. Its enrollment increased from twenty-four in its first year to more than three hundred in the 1970s, and the number of employees on its payroll went from two in 1871 to more than seventy-five a decade later. Because the school was located near Lawton, before Worl...

Comanche Reformed Church (Lawton, Okla.)

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Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911

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Prominant Comanche chief; lived in Fort Sill, Okla., area. From the description of Papers, 1852-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70971447 Quanah Parker (ca. 1845-1911), son of Comanche chief Peta Nocona and famous Indian captive Cynthia Ann Parker, was the last chief of the Quahada Comanche Indians. He played a prominent role in the Comanche tribe's resistance to white settlement and ultimately to their adjustment to reservation life. Parker led ...