SUNY First Peoples 2017 Fall 2

                                           Quanah Parker                           I am originally from Memphis, Tennessee. I currently live in Amarillo, Texas. For almost my entire time in residence in Amarillo I have heard of Quanah Parker. I never really took the time to research Quanah Parker’s history or background. This class has offered me an opportunity to take the time to pursue an icon of this area. Quanah Parker was the son of Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker. Peta Nocona was Chief of the Quahadi (Antelope), which was part of the Nokoni band. Quanah Parker was born either 1845 or 1852 and died February 1911. Cynthia Parker was from a family of white settlers who lived in the Texas Panhandle. She was kidnapped and made to adapt to Indian...

“ Alice Cunningham Fletcher as a young woman. Photograph by Ormsbee's First National Gallery, New York.”   (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History-Alice Fletcher Picture)           This posting for module number two I opted to write about the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History foreward regarding the life of ethnographer and historian Alice Fletcher.   The perspective from which the article is written particularly struck a chord with me personally because while describing her life it reminds us that we as students/researchers are also historians.   Sometimes while studying and reading certain subjects we tend to forget the importance of what it is we are examining or we may even ignore our own potential by selling ourselves short.   In brief, Fredrick Ward Putnam, director of the Harvard Peabody Museum, took note of Alice Fletchers talents and offered her the chance of a lifetime to work unde...