Quanah

American  

[kwah-nuh] / ˈkwɑ nə /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

And Quanah is helping convince TR, and TR creates a refuge where Quanah’s people are more or less in the Wichita Mountains, where the Kiowa, a different tribe, believe all the buffalo came out of the Earth.

From Los Angeles Times

And we used to have arguments over Quanah Parker and Geronimo.

From Seattle Times

William Weatherford of the Creeks, John Ross of the Cherokees and Quanah Parker of the Comanches guided their peoples during the painful transition to life under the government of the United States.

From Washington Post

And at the end of the road, I hit the Quanah Parker Dam, which restricts the flow of Quanah Creek and creates the 89-acre Quanah Parker Lake — each of them named for the Comanche leader who was born on Elk Creek just south of the mountains.

From Washington Post

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