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She became for all intents and purposes a Comanche. The Comanches, if they'd had a team of psychologists, they couldn't have come up with a better system for taking young people and Indianizing them. These sort of tough young men would haul you off and brutalize you on the way home.
Texans can imagine whatever they want about her life. And Comanches, turns out, do the same. They have their own oral version of her life and times.
And they reenact the raid. The Comanche Parkers play the Comanches, and the white Parkers play the white settlers. And there they are.
that Sarah said would die with the first hint of cold weather. 'Nadia'"-- this is Nadia Comaneci, the gymnast-- "'Nadia lives behind the Iron Curtain,' Beth announced.
And she ended up spending 24 years with the Comanches. She married a Comanche. She had three Comanche children.
She married a Comanche. She had three Comanche children. She became for all intents and purposes a Comanche.
She doesn't want to go. She's got two Comanche sons back somewhere. And she's got a Comanche husband.
American history. He spent the first half of his life being a nomadic warrior on the High Plains in Texas. But then when Comanche power is really finally crushed around 1875, and the last Comanche straggle in to the Indian agency in what's now Oklahoma, he comes in. But unlike many of the others, he gets a pretty good sense of what the situation is.
Send them off to schools, where they would be taught those things. And get this whole Comanche thing out of their system. Make them Christians. Forget their own religion.
And remember, all this time, Cynthia Ann's basically got two families now, right? She's got these Comanches family, but the original Texan family exists also. And Quanah makes efforts to contact them and eventually is successful.
And they lease to these wealthy guys grasslands while they're going through. So the Comanches do reasonably well. Quanah builds a big house called the Star House.
He's written a bunch of western novels that did pretty well. the wife of a Comanche brave-- in fact, the warrior who had led the raid.
And they abducted five young people, including nine-year-old Cynthia Ann. And they hauled them off to Comanche territory. And Uncle James survived that raid.
And so within a year or so, most of these kids would lose their Anglo-Saxon roots, whatever they were, including their language. And they would really become Comanches. And she spent 24 years with them.
And it becomes one of the justifications for a lot of imperial action, including in Texas. Because once you get the Comanches and the Texans at war with each other, Comanches are abducting a lot of people. They need to abduct people to run-- they've got a great economy of horsemanship and buffalo.
And Cynthia Ann, in many ways, became sort of a symbol of this for the Texans. She became this mythic white Comanche princess. They didn't know where she was.
She speaks no English. She speaks a bit of Spanish and Comanche. So they take her and her little baby daughter who's with her.
She's got two Comanche sons back somewhere. And she's got a Comanche husband. And that's her life.
But we know she died miserably. Even though her sons and the Comanche community was maybe 100, 150 miles away, that could have been the other side of the moon, because they were at war.
And he becomes kind of a middleman conciliator, part politician, part businessman, and becomes their spokesman. They're only down to-- the Comanches were down to less than 3,000 people by then. And they were doomed, really.
He's written a bunch of western novels that did pretty well. The book begins with the Comanche raid on the family.
But he never found Cynthia Ann. And she ended up spending 24 years with the Comanches. She married a Comanche.
She had three Comanche children. She became for all intents and purposes a Comanche. The Comanches, if they'd had a team of psychologists, they couldn't have come up with a better system for taking young people and Indianizing them.
But when the Texans start settling in the area, they become fair game as well. And there's a 40-year war between Texans and Comanches going on. It's the longest war really ever fought on American soil.
We're saying there's a pattern here where people of color don't get to live as long or aren't as safe in certain circumstances, And I remember thinking, the Comanche are from Oklahoma and Texas.
They left the gates of the settlement wide open, the sort of fortified area. And sooner or later, a group of Comanches and Kiowa come down. This is in May 1836.
Like, the original “Star Wars” film was dubbed in Navajo in 2012. And in 2022, the movie “Prey” became the first film to fully be dubbed in the Comanche language. Can every movie be like this?
We're saying there's a pattern here where people of color don't get to live as long or aren't as safe in certain circumstances, But at one point, I heard there was this Comanche spiritual leader who was coming out to the New Jersey woods
that Sarah said would die with the first hint of cold weather. If you live behind it, you can't get out.' 'Nadia Comaneci's out,' Daniel said.
Others were real. But they couldn't find her, and the Comanches would hide her when the time came. And as I say, she grew up to become a Comanche. She had three children.
Strange men come, speaking a language she doesn't understand and kill a lot of people. And they're about to kill her, but somebody notices that this woman who looks all Comanche has blue eyes. And so they don't shoot her.
There's no obituary of this mini-celebrity. And there's no real sense of what had happened to her during those 24 years when she was with the Comanches. She doesn't leave a narrative.
... have been violent. - Extremely violent. These tribes have remained alive because of their violence. Like the Spartans or the Comanches, they seem to have adopted violence as a first response to contact.
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That'll be fine. But it only took a couple more clicks searching around to find Cynthia Ann Parker and to find that, to my surprise, this incredible movie was actually loosely based on something that had really happened, a nine-year-old girl being kidnapped by Comanches in Texas. So that just sort of changed-- it didn't change the focus, but it just sort of expanded the whole thing from being
These sort of tough young men would haul you off and brutalize you on the way home. But when you got there, if you were young and of a certain age, you would be adopted by a Comanche family, because birth rate was low. People died.
Some were imaginary, fiction. Others were real. But they couldn't find her, and the Comanches would hide her when the time came. And as I say, she grew up to become a Comanche.
of the moon, because they were at war. At one point, the family gets a translator to come by or someone, a scout, who knows Comanche. And Cynthia Ann just goes crazy, because she has somebody to talk to.
And Cynthia Ann just goes crazy, because she has somebody to talk to. But all she wants from this guy, Coho Smith, is begging-- she begs him to take her back to Comancheria, to her home. She'll give them anything.
She dies in obscurity. And what she doesn't know, and really the only saving grace of all this, is that one of her Comanche sons, the only one who survives to adulthood, whose name is Quanah, becomes a rather noteworthy and important person in Native