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Quanah

American  
[kwah-nuh] / ˈkwɑ nə /

noun

  1. Quanah Parker, 1845?–1911, Comanche leader.


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Completed by the Works Progress Administration in 1936, the Quanah Parker Dam was designed as a miniature copy of the much-larger Hoover Dam completed the same year.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021

“I have never seen anybody charter flights to Beaver Creek,” said Quanah Giuseppe VanderMeer, another member of White River First Nation.

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2021

Quanah Brightman, who now runs United Native Americans, said the activism in the 1970s grew out of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2020

Quanah Parker was the last Comanche chief and a truly amazing individual.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2020

This staff descended to Timbo from Quanah Parker, once the leading chief of the Comanches.

From The Vanishing Race by Dixon, Joseph Kossuth