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Fort Parker massacre

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The Fort Parker massacre was an event in May 1836 in which members of the pioneer Parker family were killed in a raid by Native Americans. [1]

50 relations: Alan Le May, American Civil War, American Indian Wars, Anderson County, Texas, Battle of Pease River, Cache, Oklahoma, Caddo, Civilian Conservation Corps, Comanche, Crawford County, Illinois, Cynthia Ann Parker, Daniel Parker (Baptist), Elkhart, Texas, Fort Parker State Park, Fort Sill, Frankston, Texas, Georgia (U.S. state), Grimes County, Texas, Groesbeck, Texas, Illinois, Indian reservation, James W. Parker, John Parker (pioneer), John Richard Parker, John Wayne, Kichai people, Killough massacre, Kiowa, Lenape, Limestone County, Texas, List of Indian massacres, List of massacres in the United States, Llano Estacado, Massacre, Militia, Native Americans in the United States, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Territory, Peta Nocona, Quanah Parker, Rachel Plummer, Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Ranger Division, The Searchers, United States, Virginia, Wichita people.

Alan Le May

Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 – April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Indian Wars

The American Indian Wars (or Indian Wars) is the collective name for the various armed conflicts fought by European governments and colonists, and later the United States government and American settlers, against various American Indian tribes.

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Anderson County, Texas

Anderson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Battle of Pease River

The Battle of Pease River also known as the Massacre of Pease River occurred on December 18, 1860, near the present-day town of Margaret, Texas in Foard County, Texas, United States.

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Cache, Oklahoma

Cache is a city in Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Caddo

The Caddo Nation is a confederacy of several Southeastern Native American tribes.

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Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men.

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Comanche

The Comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ) are a Native American nation from the Great Plains whose historic territory, known as Comancheria, consisted of present-day eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, western Oklahoma, and most of northwest Texas and northern Chihuahua.

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Crawford County, Illinois

Crawford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Cynthia Ann Parker

Cynthia Ann Parker, or Naduah (Comanche Narua) (– March 1871), was an Anglo-American who was kidnapped in 1836, at the age of about ten (possibly as young as 8 or already over 11 – her birth year is uncertain), by a Comanche war band which had massacred her family's settlement.

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Daniel Parker (Baptist)

Daniel Parker (January 29, 1781 – December 3, 1844) was an early American leader in the Primitive Baptist Church in the Southern United States and the founder of numerous churches including Pilgrim Primitive Baptist Church at Elkhart, Texas, the location of the Parker family cemetery.

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Elkhart, Texas

Elkhart is a town in Anderson County, Texas, United States.

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Fort Parker State Park

Fort Parker State Park is a Texas state park near Mexia.

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Fort Sill

Fort Sill, Oklahoma is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.

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Frankston, Texas

Frankston is a town in Anderson County, Texas, United States.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Grimes County, Texas

Grimes County is a county located in southeaster Texas in the United States.

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Groesbeck, Texas

Groesbeck is a city in and the county seat of Limestone County, Texas, United States.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Indian reservation

An Indian reservation is a legal designation for an area of land managed by a federally recognized Native American tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs rather than the state governments of the United States in which they are physically located.

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James W. Parker

James W. Parker (July 4, 1797 - died 1864) was the uncle of Cynthia Ann Parker and the great uncle of Quanah Parker, last chief of the Comanches.

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John Parker (pioneer)

Elder John Parker (September 6, 1758 – May 19, 1836) was an American patriot, veteran of the American War of Independence, scout and minor diplomat for the American government, famous frontier Ranger, noted Indian fighter, Texan settler, and Predestinarian Baptist minister.

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John Richard Parker

John T. Parker (1834–1915) was the brother of Cynthia Ann Parker and the uncle of Comanche chief Quanah Parker.

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John Wayne

Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed "The Duke", was an American actor and filmmaker.

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Kichai people

The Kichai tribe (also Keechi or Kitsai) was a Native American Southern Plains tribe that lived in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.

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Killough massacre

The Killough Massacre is believed to have been both the largest and last Native American attack on white settlers in East Texas.

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Kiowa

Kiowa people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains.

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Lenape

The Lenape, also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in Canada and the United States.

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Limestone County, Texas

Limestone County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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List of Indian massacres

In the history of the European colonization of the Americas, an atrocity termed "Indian massacre" is a specific incident wherein a group of people (military, mob or other) deliberately kill a significant number of unarmed, defenseless people — usually civilian noncombatants — or to the summary execution of prisoners-of-war.

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List of massacres in the United States

This is a partial list of massacres in the United States; it excludes single perpetrator massacres; death tolls may be approximate.

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Llano Estacado

Llano Estacado, often translated as Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas.

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Massacre

A massacre is a killing, typically of multiple victims, considered morally unacceptable, especially when perpetrated by a group of political actors against defenseless victims.

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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a nation, or subjects of a state, who can be called upon for military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel, or historically, members of a warrior nobility class (e.g., knights or samurai).

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Oklahoma Territory

The Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 2, 1890, until November 16, 1907, when it was joined with the Indian Territory under a new constitution and admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma.

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Peta Nocona

Peta Nocona (ca. 1820 -ca. 1864?) was a chief of the Comanche Quahadi band, who was the husband of Cynthia Ann Parker and the father of Quanah Parker.

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Quanah Parker

Quanah Parker (Comanche kwana, "smell, odor") (– February 20, 1911) was a Comanche war leader of the Quahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche people.

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Rachel Plummer

Rachel Parker Plummer (1818–1839) was the daughter of James W. Parker and the cousin of Quanah Parker, last free-roaming chief of the Comanches.

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Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas (República de Tejas) was an independent sovereign state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.

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Sam Houston

Sam Houston (March 2, 1793July 26, 1863) was an American soldier and politician.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Texas Ranger Division

The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction in Texas, based in the capital city of Austin.

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The Searchers

The Searchers is a 1956 American Technicolor VistaVision Western film directed by John Ford, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May, set during the Texas–Indian Wars, and starring John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood), accompanied by his adoptive nephew (Jeffrey Hunter).

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Wichita people

The Wichita people are a confederation of Midwestern Native Americans.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Parker_massacre

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