What is "quanah"

Usage examples of "quanah".

But I reckon you'd have to ask at Anadarko if anyone other than Quanah rides herd.

For I doubt Quanah would have ridden all the way up to Anadarko to wire out for uniforms when he could have done so from Fred Ryan's office.

Rogers said Quanah naturally reported tribal income to his own agent, Conway, who relayed it on up to Anadarko by way of the wire here in the liaison office.

Seeing the Comanche sub-agency lay east-northeast of the actual fort, although within the sprawling limits of the military reservation, Longarm led the gals that way until they spotted the steeple of that church Quanah Parker and his band attended when they weren't beating drums for other puha.

Now that everyone's agreed on Quanah Parker as the heap big chief of the Comanche and spokesman for his orphaned Kiowa children, things have commenced to get more progressive.

That's Kiowa country, and not even Quanah can make Kiowa toe the line.

They say it all goes back to when some Kiowa followed a younger and wilder Quanah up to Adobe Walls, along with some Arapaho and South Cheyenne.

They say the experience made a Christian out of Quanah and disillusioned the Kiowa considerable.

Few had been hurt or seriously shaken down, but now that they all thought back, there had been some Indian Police chasing a bunch of Kiowa stock thieves, and as a matter of fact the Indian Police had been given food, fodder, and some travel expenses they said Quanah would repay, in his own good time, as they wandered the big reserve.

In a letter postmarked December 29, 1932, Howard asked Derleth: “You’ve heard perhaps of Quanah Parker, the great Comanche war chief, son of Petah Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker?

Quanah was not about to smoke any peace pipe, but Herrera had said it would be okay to offer cigarettes.

As the leader of the largest contingent, Quanah got to lay out the plan of attack, with the help of his private medicine man.

I don't know how this puha is sung, but it works well and Quanah buys good things with some of the money while the rest keeps breeding for us in that big iron box!

But fair is fair and we haven't had any trouble with the rascals since old Quanah Parker saw the light, remembered he was half white, and brung his bands in to eat more regular off the taxpaying Taibo.

If they could just get to Quanah, they could scare up a wagon for themselves.