QUANAH

This is a portrait of the great Native American chief Quanah Parker, called the Eagle of the Comanche. He is standing on the earth, solidly grounded, with his moccasin laces spreading out like the roots of a tree. Yet his mind soars into the clouds like the hawk in the sky. His first name, Quanah, means “fragrant” in the Comanche language and his second name, Parker, comes from his mother Cynthia Ann Parker. She was a white woman, captured as a child, who grew up in the Comanche tribe and married Chief Peta Nocona.