I'm Indegenous. I know ppl talk more about her son, the last free chief. It's Cynthia that the story is about. She tried to run away to her tribe. She was caught and forced to return to her family. She died thinking her 2 sons had perished in battle. Lots of her family rejected her. They couldn't understand her love for her tribe and her husband. A few were sympathetic. Cynthia stopped eating and stopped talking. She would rock her little girl and sing in her tribal language to her child. Cynthia Parker died of a broken heart. It's got to be one of the saddest stories of a white woman who fell in love with a lifestyle and a handsome warrior. So sad. Several captured whites became one with their tribe. When they were found after many years, they refused to leave. Cynthia, like others, was forced to leave.
As I listened to the story I wondered about that. It seems so wrong to force her to leave if she didn't want to!! As an adult, she should of been given the choice!! I have no doubt she missed her children & husband!! Did she ever get remarried to a white man or have more children,?
One of her cousins (I think) said that the white people harmed her more by forcibly repatriating her than the Comanche did by kidnapping her in the first place. Cynthia/Naduah was miserable without her husband, sons, and adopted family. Too bad this cousin was the only one of her birth family to think that she should just be allowed to go back.
@@lindachandler2293 Exactly! When a grown woman says “ I don’t want to go with you” it should have ended right there. Cynthia was definitely kidnapped again.
My great aunt who was born in Texas in the 19th century and live to a very ripe old age used to talk about this. She she had some connection with the Parker family. She used to talk about Cynthia a lot and said that it was really tragic how she died with a broken heart.
Theres a book about her called ride the wind,its really good,it stated that her uncle would keep saying he would take her back to her husband snd sons but never did and thst her daughter died young.please stop showing pics of models who look nothing like the real people
That is an excellent book by Lucia St Claire Robson. However, it should be told that it is historical fiction, meaning many details of her life with the Comanche are speculation.
@@kansascowboypoetwelborn4323That is correct, however, I would say that he way of life in the comanche tribe is a reconstruction of what is known. A writer has many resources, for example oral histories of Native Amercans as told to interviewers & , documented by historians, and there are books published documenting the life of famous native leaders, for example “Black Elk Speaks” Black Elk was a Mystic and medicine man, a Holy mn spiritual leader , a “Wakasha Wakan”. of the Lakota . The NA people were extensivly photographed in thier Regalia and family groups, documaneted for posterity. . Another very detailed account of Native American history & horse culture is “Hanta Yo”, a memoir as told to the author.
@kansascowboypoetwelborn4323 Actually if you read her history, the book follows it very closely. Of course, conversations were probably made up, but the book was excellent.
I've read that book. It was so good. It started my love for her story. The property my family owned when I was a kid was a buffalo wallow for Iron Shirt's tribe from the Palo Duro Canyon.
I am from Crawford County, IL. My 3rd great grandmother Elizabeth Parker was Cynthia Ann’s cousin. Elizabeth died fairly young. She was married to Harvey Allison. They had my 2nd great grandmother Eliza Allison. Eliza was raised by her Parker relatives in Illinois. Harvey Allison went to TX and married another cousin of Cynthia Ann’s Sarah Starr. They lived the rest of their lives near the site of Fort Parker. The Starr family having a huge ranch there. I grew up with the family stories of Cynthia Ann and Quanah. I didn’t realize until I was an adult it was a story known outside our family. Cynthia Ann’s life was full of tragedy. Quanah loved and respected his mother. I agree with others about the images in this video. Why not use on of the photos of Cynthia Ann and a few of Quanah. Show places relevant to the story ? Thank for your effort to keep Cynthia Ann’s story alive.
Poor Cynthia/ Nadua reminds me of Mary/ Negewanus. Even the famous Sakajawea or Rebecca Rolf. There were plenty of tribes keeping slaves, trafficking etc. but there were also people who simply had a new life. I hope they found peace. Poor girls, poor ladies. Forever caught up in cultural conflict. Torn between families and love. 😢 ❤ Someone should make a movie about this part of the 'wild' west.
This is not surprising. Many of the children sent to Canada during the war were not happy when they returned to England. Many returned. Those teen years establish who you are.
Quanah Parker's mother, the last great war chief of the Comanches. Comanches were the terror of the southern plains, founders of the Empire of the Summer Moon.
BTW that is SUCH a good book. I had it recommended to me, and loved it. Let’s just say that if Quanah Parker tried to pitch his Real True Life Story to a Hollywood screenwriter, they’d say “no, that’s too…Hollywood!” He led an extraordinarily eventful life, as did his mother.
I read than quannah pined for his mother his brother died he was sickly and not strong like quannah. But quannah always wanted to find his mother he finally found out she had died and went to her grave the following day he himself died so sad he always loved her ❤
Very faulty story-telling. Why not use authentic photos and stick to the authentic story? Or the tragedy of her little daughter dying from illness while among the whites and her own early death by self inflicted starvation? It was said that she died of a broken heart. Her famous son, Quanah, referenced his mother with affection and even mentioned his father's pain that she was gone.
My great aunt who was born in the 19th century in Texas had some kind of connection with Cynthia Ann's relatives. More than once she talked about the poor woman dying of a broken heart.
Torn away from a happy marriage and loving sons, and the people she regarded as her own, to live among strangers who couldn’t or wouldn’t be bothered to understand her, her one remaining daughter dying as a child, never finding out if her sons lived or not…she suffered so much she probably did die of depression.
I read a nonfiction book about her and her son (Empire of the Summer Moon) and they mentioned she was like 5’8, which is taller than average even now, but, for both a white woman of her class background, and a Comanche woman period, she would have towered over most men. Her white captors initially thought she *was* a man because of her height and build. The pics I saw of her in the books reflect that; she was a tall, heavy-set blonde. (And to survive on the Plains, being tall and heavy would be an asset.)
Everyone should read the account of Rachel Plummer, Cynthia's 19 year old cousin who was captured in the same raid. Rachel was married and pregnant at the time. Because she was older, she was repeatedly raped, tortured and enslaved. When she had her baby, her captors resented her spending too much time on the baby. The men of the tribe took the baby and dragged it behind a horse until they thought it dead. They tossed the unconscious baby at Rachel and when they discovered it was still alive. They dashed its head on rocks to kill it in her view. Rachel was later sold back to the whites. Her view of life with the Comanches was far different from Cynthia's. Her written account is available on the web.
For a more detailed account of the Ft. Parker raid, search UA-cam using this text: Comanche Raids | What it was like to SURVIVE the Most TERRIFYING Attacks on the Frontier
@@kathywright6853 Apparently, she cut her hair as a sign of mourning after she was taken to Texas. She held her baby above her head no doubt to show that she was an unarmed woman with a baby. Whatever the reason, it worked. For the record, the man also wore their hair long. Many still do.
Cynthia was a tall, heavily built woman, her hair was cut short (mourning), so her captors thought she was a man at first. She held her child over her head to show that she was a woman.
@@kathywright6853 According to accounts by Texas Rangers, she also called out, "Me Cincee" to show she was Cynthia Ann Parker. That undoubtedly was an act to save her and Prairie Flower's lives.
How do you feel about the opposite scenario? A young Native American girl is captured and raised by Whites. Marries a White man, has two children, but is then taken back by her original tribe.
@@cecilr7986 ‘OK i am not sure i can find my way back to this discussion if i leave to search for the Titles. One is “The Unforgiven”. and the other is “The Searchers”. and the novel has same title. Actually they are versions of the same story.: An indian child, a small baby is found in the aftermath of a raid by whites on an Indian camp. and given to a white family and adopted and raised as their own, not telling the child she is adopted. . .
I read her book -- the above video conveniently skips over the way she was treated in the years immediately following her capture. Hardly the life of an Indian Princess.
Thieves of what exactly? You are showing how naive young people are about all this owing to some serious twisting of history. No one "'owned" Texas. The US had actually fought a bloody war with the Spanish over it, years earlier, and won. The settlers had bought and paid for their land,, from VA west: often the US bought it from the tribes, and then sold it to settlers. Contracts were riddled with mapping and language problems (most Indians did not speak English); there were betrayals of treaties from both side. The treaties, in an era with no mass communication, were enormously problematic and difficult to maintain. Through over a hundred and fifty years, three govts were involved (France, Britain and the US) and hundreds of tribes who did not even agree with each other. The settlers "stole" nothing.. The Indian tribes in question had not always been in that area - AT ALL. And, they had driven out peaceful tribes to take land they didn't have traditionally. Additionally, tribes were traditionally at war with each other. They attacked settlements of farmers to spread terror. They were a warrior society: their glory and reps depended on killing others - white or Indian. Not all tribes were like this, but the ones in question in this story were. I'm sorry, but we need to start teaching the truth about these things, and get rid of the woke nonsense.
There have been several movies that made attempts to mimic Cynthia's story. John Wayne's movie, 'The Searchers' is probably the best known. While I liked the Duke, that movie did a poor job of telling the story. (Very Hollywood-esk)
@kansascowboypoetwelborn4323 your right. It's a story that should be told. However, by today's standards, Hollywood will get political. Hollywood will make sure that they include others. One of Cynthia's sons will be LGBT, and Hollywood would not be visually historical correct. They always have to make sure that particular groups are represented. Hollywood just can't tell an accurate story anymore. It would have to be a small independent movie. A lot of small independent movies have been big hits. Someone should give it a shot.
Great job on the video. Can you do me a favor, can you make more videos about Native Americans kidnapping and adopting European setters. I like stories about women and children being captives and then being adopting and living with Native Americans.
You should read the account of Rachel Plummer, Cynthia's 19 year old cousin who was captured in the same raid. Rachel was married and pregnant at the time. Because she was older, she was repeatedly raped, tortured and enslaved. When she had her baby, her captors resented her spending too much time on the baby. The men of the tribe took the baby and drugged it behind a horse until they thought it dead. They tossed the unconscious baby at Rachel and when they discovered it was still alive. They dashed its head on rocks to kill it in her view. Rachel was later sold back to the whites. Her view of life with the Comanches was far different from Cynthia's. Her written account is available on the web.
Learning to love your captures is a well-researched condition called Stockholm syndrome. I'm sure that she could remember her life before she was captured but had no choice but to love the ones she was with to survive emotionally.
Stockholm Syndrome is NOT "well-researched." The victims of the Stockholm kidnapping themselves claim that the "diagnosis" never applied to them or any of their actions. The term was coined by some Canadian psychologist who never even met the victims and published his speculations as fact. Swedish law enforcement embraced the "condition," in large measure to obscure their bungled response to the crime. Pop culture and self-proclaimed mental health "experts" did the rest. The responses to kidnapping/captivity are as varied as the events themselves, but people who come to adjust to their new condition are not necessarily suffering from some pathology or syndrome.
@@pricklypear7516 Thanks for the tirade. If someone has an unusual reaction to a crime perpetrated aganst them such as not protesting, then there is a pathology at work.
@@dawnemile7499 People who consider any sort of education a "tirade" tend to stay very limited indeed. Sorry if I scorched your You Tube-bestowed psychology diploma with facts.
@@pricklypear7516 Nineteen years of university buddy. A BA in psych and ten years in the mental healthy field then 3 years of Criminolgy just short of another BA.
@@dawnemile7499 Then you should know that professionals in the field have looked askance at "Stockholm Syndrome" since the term was first introduced. Also, saying that "If someone has an unusual reaction to a crime perpetrated against them such as not protesting, then there is a pathology at work" is both ignorant and irresponsible. As if we know what a USUAL reaction is in any given event, and as if we can determine what every human's reaction SHOULD be. That crap is EXACTLY how people come to believe foolish garbage like "If she didn't scream, she must have enjoyed it."
I’m a descendant of hers. At least in family stories. I was adopted but found my biological mother and her people. Both of her sides were from Oklahoma and Texas. I’m very proud of this heritage, much more than the European ancestors of mine
I have a direct descendant living down the hall from me. He is a walking wealth of knowledge regarding his family - his grandmother made sure he and his siblings knew all about them-
@@robinlewis5374 that’s cool. I would love to know more. When I retire I want to do more research. I’m connected by my biological mother not the parents that raised me
@@ghostlyimageoffear6210 it was 1960. And that’s just how they handled it back then. She was sent to a home for unwed mothers to wait out the pregnancy and have me. I always knew I was adopted and my parents were the best parents ever. But I found her out of curiosity
She died in East Texas in 1870 of pneumonia, NOT a broken heart, and NOT starving herself to death. She was 42 or 43. After bring brought back, unwillingly, to her Uncle Isaac Parker's house in Birdville in Dec. 1860, she kept trying to leave to find her husband and sons. Her daughter was with her. Her daughter died of pneumonia around age 3. She never saw her husband and sons again. She went to live with her sister, Orlena Parker O'Quinn in East Texas (Henderson or Van Zandt County). That didn't last long, either. Her sister didn't know her, being only 5 months old when she was taken. Ultimately Cynthia was given her own log cabin to live out her days. She made friends of the Padgett couple who taught her how to raise and cook vegetables. She received a pension from the state, which her uncle secured for her in Austin.
I have issues with how these stories are romanticized. In this narration you neglect to speak of what happened at the fort - how many were butchered. Cynthia Ann was about 11 according to her uncle who was there, and witnessed her own parents and grandfather brutally killed. We have two accounts of this attack by eye witnesses. Through the years a story has evolved that she, after her return, was so terribly enamoured of the Indians that she wanted to return. I would guess it is more likely that 1) her children were still with the Indians, and 2) she didn't even speak the English language, after being held for 18 years of her life. It is understandable that she had a horrible time finding her way back in white culture and would have wanted to return to where her sons were and a language and culture she knew. That does not mean her captivity was fine and dandy. It means she was a little girl whose life was stolen and became a troubled adult. To pretend otherwise is not only disrespectful to her memory but to those others of her family who were murdered or captured (including her own teenaged cousin who later returned; see Rachel Parker Kellogg). This story that she "died of a broken heart" is a story that has been pushed by native Americans. In reality she died many years after her return to white society, of other causes. It is also a myth that she was held captive by her relatives upon return. She could not communicate with them, and no one would have known her feelings or motives. She had horrible memories of the massacre at the fort and of her hardships amongst the Indians; she also had a history of family with the tribe.. I think most intelligent people can put two and two together. Among so many stories of children kidnapped and held for years this is one of the saddest.
The picture you’re referring to is of another captive woman who took her place and was tattooed as a young woman of the Mohave tribe. Her name was Olive Oatman and she was from here in Arizona. Her family gave rise to the tourist city of Oatman.
I was born in Mexico, and adopted out of a Mexican orphanage to become the daughter to Anglo American parents and raised to be Anglo. The language I spoke went away but not the color of my skin. I was Mexican but not, looked Mexican but not in thought or culture. Two worlds , one skin. Not Mexican but except when looking in the mirror. It causes dislocation
@@christineeast9879 I was adopted and raised by a family that was culturally similar. You lose everything that is valuable to people who have not been adopted, and are made to feel guilty for your feelings. American law allows adoptees who were removed to locate their birth family. This is because, unlike everyone else in the adoption process, you had legal standing and yet had no say in the matter. When you yourself were the most affected by the adoption process. Look for adoption groups that will support you in your personal identity and your search for your birth culture. YOU ARE NORMAL, YOU HAVE APPROPRIATE FEELINGS AND A RIGHT TO BE SEEN AS WHO YOU ARE, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. Mil besos, mi hermanita a thousand kisses, little sister. ❤
Then you haven't seen a photo of the real Cynthia Ann Parker. She only had two photos taken of her in life, The first was of her nursing her daughter, taken in Fort Worth in December, 1860. The second, in Austin, showed her with a heavy leather coat on. Her face was not tattooed, and no other part of her was uncovered in either photo. None of the photos in this blog was her, Quanah, the Comanche or Parker's Fort. I work at the museum that has her Uncle Isaac Parker's cabin, where she was brought back to at age 34. She DID NOT DIE of a broken heart or starving herself as the common myth perpetuates. She died of pneumonia at age 43 in 1870, ten years after her second kidnapping. She appears on the 1870 census.
I'm Indegenous. I know ppl talk more about her son, the last free chief. It's Cynthia that the story is about. She tried to run away to her tribe. She was caught and forced to return to her family. She died thinking her 2 sons had perished in battle. Lots of her family rejected her. They couldn't understand her love for her tribe and her husband. A few were sympathetic. Cynthia stopped eating and stopped talking. She would rock her little girl and sing in her tribal language to her child. Cynthia Parker died of a broken heart. It's got to be one of the saddest stories of a white woman who fell in love with a lifestyle and a handsome warrior. So sad. Several captured whites became one with their tribe. When they were found after many years, they refused to leave. Cynthia, like others, was forced to leave.
As I listened to the story I wondered about that. It seems so wrong to force her to leave if she didn't want to!! As an adult, she should of been given the choice!! I have no doubt she missed her children & husband!! Did she ever get remarried to a white man or have more children,?
@@AnnaBrown-h4e she died. She didn't live that long after she was taken from her husband and tribe.
Cynthia Ann Parker is a person that I am descended from, which also makes me a descendant of Quanah, also. The first picture is of Rachel Plummer.
Cynthia Parker lived 8yrs after she was reunited with her birth family.
Like any Mother she wanted to be with her children.
Well, no community would allow an aggressor to kidnap their children and retain them indefinitely.
I've always thought in cases like this it was more like being kidnapped a second time 😢
One of her cousins (I think) said that the white people harmed her more by forcibly repatriating her than the Comanche did by kidnapping her in the first place. Cynthia/Naduah was miserable without her husband, sons, and adopted family. Too bad this cousin was the only one of her birth family to think that she should just be allowed to go back.
@@lindachandler2293 Exactly! When a grown woman says “ I don’t want to go with you” it should have ended right there. Cynthia was definitely kidnapped again.
My great aunt who was born in Texas in the 19th century and live to a very ripe old age used to talk about this. She she had some connection with the Parker family. She used to talk about Cynthia a lot and said that it was really tragic how she died with a broken heart.
Sad story indeed. She never needed being saved, she was obviously a happy woman as a Comanche
Theres a book about her called ride the wind,its really good,it stated that her uncle would keep saying he would take her back to her husband snd sons but never did and thst her daughter died young.please stop showing pics of models who look nothing like the real people
That is an excellent book by Lucia St Claire Robson. However, it should be told that it is historical fiction, meaning many details of her life with the Comanche are speculation.
@@kansascowboypoetwelborn4323That is correct, however, I would say that he way of life in the comanche tribe is a reconstruction of what is known. A writer has many resources, for example oral histories of Native Amercans as told to interviewers & , documented by historians, and there are books published documenting the life of famous native leaders, for example “Black Elk Speaks” Black Elk was a Mystic and medicine man, a Holy mn spiritual leader , a “Wakasha Wakan”. of the Lakota . The NA people were extensivly photographed in thier Regalia and family groups, documaneted for posterity. . Another very detailed account of Native American history & horse culture is “Hanta Yo”, a memoir as told to the author.
@kansascowboypoetwelborn4323 Actually if you read her history, the book follows it very closely. Of course, conversations were probably made up, but the book was excellent.
I've read that book. It was so good. It started my love for her story. The property my family owned when I was a kid was a buffalo wallow for Iron Shirt's tribe from the Palo Duro Canyon.
I am from Crawford County, IL. My 3rd great grandmother Elizabeth Parker was Cynthia Ann’s cousin. Elizabeth died fairly young. She was married to Harvey Allison. They had my 2nd great grandmother Eliza Allison. Eliza was raised by her Parker relatives in Illinois. Harvey Allison went to TX and married another cousin of Cynthia Ann’s Sarah Starr. They lived the rest of their lives near the site of Fort Parker. The Starr family having a huge ranch there. I grew up with the family stories of Cynthia Ann and Quanah. I didn’t realize until I was an adult it was a story known outside our family. Cynthia Ann’s life was full of tragedy. Quanah loved and respected his mother. I agree with others about the images in this video. Why not use on of the photos of Cynthia Ann and a few of Quanah. Show places relevant to the story ? Thank for your effort to keep Cynthia Ann’s story alive.
How amazing this is your family! It's a fantastic, tragic story.. I can't help but think of the precious, terrified 9yr old.
Poor Cynthia/ Nadua reminds me of Mary/ Negewanus. Even the famous Sakajawea or Rebecca Rolf. There were plenty of tribes keeping slaves, trafficking etc. but there were also people who simply had a new life. I hope they found peace. Poor girls, poor ladies. Forever caught up in cultural conflict. Torn between families and love. 😢 ❤
Someone should make a movie about this part of the 'wild' west.
This is not surprising. Many of the children sent to Canada during the war were not happy when they returned to England. Many returned. Those teen years establish who you are.
Quanah Parker's mother, the last great war chief of the Comanches. Comanches were the terror of the southern plains, founders of the Empire of the Summer Moon.
BTW that is SUCH a good book. I had it recommended to me, and loved it. Let’s just say that if Quanah Parker tried to pitch his Real True Life Story to a Hollywood screenwriter, they’d say “no, that’s too…Hollywood!” He led an extraordinarily eventful life, as did his mother.
I read than quannah pined for his mother his brother died he was sickly and not strong like quannah. But quannah always wanted to find his mother he finally found out she had died and went to her grave the following day he himself died so sad he always loved her ❤
Tearing her away from her husband and children. Absolutely heartbreaking!
Very faulty story-telling. Why not use authentic photos and stick to the authentic story? Or the tragedy of her little daughter dying from illness while among the whites and her own early death by self inflicted starvation? It was said that she died of a broken heart. Her famous son, Quanah, referenced his mother with affection and even mentioned his father's pain that she was gone.
My great aunt who was born in the 19th century in Texas had some kind of connection with Cynthia Ann's relatives. More than once she talked about the poor woman dying of a broken heart.
I feel Cynthia Ann died of a broken heart 💔
Torn away from a happy marriage and loving sons, and the people she regarded as her own, to live among strangers who couldn’t or wouldn’t be bothered to understand her, her one remaining daughter dying as a child, never finding out if her sons lived or not…she suffered so much she probably did die of depression.
The first photo is not Cynthia Ann Parker. there are only a couple of photos of her later in life and she was decidedly heavier.
And blonde.
I read a nonfiction book about her and her son (Empire of the Summer Moon) and they mentioned she was like 5’8, which is taller than average even now, but, for both a white woman of her class background, and a Comanche woman period, she would have towered over most men. Her white captors initially thought she *was* a man because of her height and build. The pics I saw of her in the books reflect that; she was a tall, heavy-set blonde. (And to survive on the Plains, being tall and heavy would be an asset.)
Doesn’t look like any of the photos are her or any of the historical people discussed
And she had great big man-hands.
It's also about how sick, trauma and PTSD can change identity
My cousins are from the Parker line. I grew up knowing about Cynthias struggles.
Only generalities here! Her real story is far more complex and truly tragic than this mere outline!
Everyone should read the account of Rachel Plummer, Cynthia's 19 year old cousin who was captured in the same raid. Rachel was married and pregnant at the time. Because she was older, she was repeatedly raped, tortured and enslaved. When she had her baby, her captors resented her spending too much time on the baby. The men of the tribe took the baby and dragged it behind a horse until they thought it dead. They tossed the unconscious baby at Rachel and when they discovered it was still alive. They dashed its head on rocks to kill it in her view. Rachel was later sold back to the whites. Her view of life with the Comanches was far different from Cynthia's. Her written account is available on the web.
For a more detailed account of the Ft. Parker raid, search UA-cam using this text: Comanche Raids | What it was like to SURVIVE the Most TERRIFYING Attacks on the Frontier
They treated adults captives much differently than they did the children who were adopted and raised as tribe members.
Of course her outlook was different. They were treated differently.
She wasn't "saved" at all. She was forced back into a life she no longer belonged to.
The images are ridiculous.
Quanah Parker is my daughters great great grandfather
Read the book Empire of the Summer Moon. It’s about her son. Good read.
Poor Cynthia. She did not assimilate back to her white family and longed to go home. Her story is tragic.
Why would any mother hold her child above her head to protect herself?
Is this a misstatement?
The account I had read said she held her up to show that she was a woman with a baby and not a warrior because her hair was short
@@kathywright6853
Apparently, she cut her hair as a sign of mourning after she was taken to Texas.
She held her baby above her head no doubt to show that she was an unarmed woman with a baby.
Whatever the reason, it worked.
For the record, the man also wore their hair long. Many still do.
Cynthia was a tall, heavily built woman, her hair was cut short (mourning), so her captors thought she was a man at first. She held her child over her head to show that she was a woman.
@@kathywright6853 According to accounts by Texas Rangers, she also called out, "Me Cincee" to show she was Cynthia Ann Parker. That undoubtedly was an act to save her and Prairie Flower's lives.
@@miraleatardiff8543she had cut her hair in mourning before she was taken back.
How do you feel about the opposite scenario? A young Native American girl is captured and raised by Whites. Marries a White man, has two children, but is then taken back by her original tribe.
@@cecilr7986 There is more than one Hollywood. movie with that story-line. and a novel.
@@prarieborn6458Thanks. Please share titles. I’m sure others would be interested as well.
@@cecilr7986 ‘OK i am not sure i can find my way back to this discussion if i leave to search for the Titles. One is “The Unforgiven”. and the other is “The Searchers”. and the novel has same title. Actually they are versions of the same story.: An indian child, a small baby is found in the aftermath of a raid by whites on an Indian camp. and given to a white family and adopted and raised as their own, not telling the child she is adopted. . .
Also sad...unless she is happier there...
SUBBED! Thank you for this
I find it interesting how many people related to Cynthia Ann have responded in the comments. It's such a sad story
How sad that she was forced to leave her adopted family which she obviously loved.
Her children were not adopted. They were hers.
My family is directly related to Cynthia Anna Parker..
The movie, The Searchers is about Cynthia Anna Parker
I read her book -- the above video conveniently skips over the way she was treated in the years immediately following her capture. Hardly the life of an Indian Princess.
Exactly.
That's an amazing story
That woman is not Cynthia Ann Parker. This is Cynthia Ann Parker:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cynthia_Ann_Parker.jpg
Thank you. It's nice to see the true picture of her.
So we don't want to knowledge that she longed for her non-white husband but only for her own children?💙
She probably had an entire extended/adopted family left behind who she missed too.
The settlers were thiefs, never forget that.
Thieves of what exactly? You are showing how naive young people are about all this owing to some serious twisting of history. No one "'owned" Texas. The US had actually fought a bloody war with the Spanish over it, years earlier, and won. The settlers had bought and paid for their land,, from VA west: often the US bought it from the tribes, and then sold it to settlers. Contracts were riddled with mapping and language problems (most Indians did not speak English); there were betrayals of treaties from both side. The treaties, in an era with no mass communication, were enormously problematic and difficult to maintain. Through over a hundred and fifty years, three govts were involved (France, Britain and the US) and hundreds of tribes who did not even agree with each other. The settlers "stole" nothing.. The Indian tribes in question had not always been in that area - AT ALL. And, they had driven out peaceful tribes to take land they didn't have traditionally. Additionally, tribes were traditionally at war with each other. They attacked settlements of farmers to spread terror. They were a warrior society: their glory and reps depended on killing others - white or Indian. Not all tribes were like this, but the ones in question in this story were.
I'm sorry, but we need to start teaching the truth about these things, and get rid of the woke nonsense.
Hate the AI models in the visuals for this visual. The narration is okay.
Yeah, I had to scroll through them fast; I hate it when irrelevant imagery and characters are inserted in a narrative. Dissonant.
My mom and a girlhood friend for life wrote the best book about her, true to what really happened to Cynthia Parker!! Front North Central Texas.
The picture at 4:37 is photoshopped. The child has no mouth and the foot is upside down plus WAY too long ? For a child of this age
AI not Photoshoppe
Cynthia Ann Parker almost resembled one Native American .
Word is, she died of a broken heart. Because of her, tho, Quana held his own in an increasingly white world. niio
Why does the video not show any of the real photos of her?
This story would be a great movie. Netflix anyone?
There have been several movies that made attempts to mimic Cynthia's story. John Wayne's movie, 'The Searchers' is probably the best known. While I liked the Duke, that movie did a poor job of telling the story. (Very Hollywood-esk)
@kansascowboypoetwelborn4323 your right. It's a story that should be told. However, by today's standards, Hollywood will get political. Hollywood will make sure that they include others. One of Cynthia's sons will be LGBT, and Hollywood would not be visually historical correct. They always have to make sure that particular groups are represented. Hollywood just can't tell an accurate story anymore. It would have to be a small independent movie. A lot of small independent movies have been big hits. Someone should give it a shot.
The photographs in this video are not accurate.
Great job on the video. Can you do me a favor, can you make more videos about Native Americans kidnapping and adopting European setters. I like stories about women and children being captives and then being adopting and living with Native Americans.
You should read the account of Rachel Plummer, Cynthia's 19 year old cousin who was captured in the same raid. Rachel was married and pregnant at the time. Because she was older, she was repeatedly raped, tortured and enslaved. When she had her baby, her captors resented her spending too much time on the baby. The men of the tribe took the baby and drugged it behind a horse until they thought it dead. They tossed the unconscious baby at Rachel and when they discovered it was still alive. They dashed its head on rocks to kill it in her view. Rachel was later sold back to the whites. Her view of life with the Comanches was far different from Cynthia's. Her written account is available on the web.
Learning to love your captures is a well-researched condition called Stockholm syndrome. I'm sure that she could remember her life before she was captured but had no choice but to love the ones she was with to survive emotionally.
Stockholm Syndrome is NOT "well-researched." The victims of the Stockholm kidnapping themselves claim that the "diagnosis" never applied to them or any of their actions. The term was coined by some Canadian psychologist who never even met the victims and published his speculations as fact. Swedish law enforcement embraced the "condition," in large measure to obscure their bungled response to the crime. Pop culture and self-proclaimed mental health "experts" did the rest. The responses to kidnapping/captivity are as varied as the events themselves, but people who come to adjust to their new condition are not necessarily suffering from some pathology or syndrome.
@@pricklypear7516 Thanks for the tirade. If someone has an unusual reaction to a crime perpetrated aganst them such as not protesting, then there is a pathology at work.
@@dawnemile7499 People who consider any sort of education a "tirade" tend to stay very limited indeed. Sorry if I scorched your You Tube-bestowed psychology diploma with facts.
@@pricklypear7516 Nineteen years of university buddy. A BA in psych and ten years in the mental healthy field then 3 years of Criminolgy just short of another BA.
@@dawnemile7499 Then you should know that professionals in the field have looked askance at "Stockholm Syndrome" since the term was first introduced. Also, saying that "If someone has an unusual reaction to a crime perpetrated against them such as not protesting, then there is a pathology at work" is both ignorant and irresponsible. As if we know what a USUAL reaction is in any given event, and as if we can determine what every human's reaction SHOULD be. That crap is EXACTLY how people come to believe foolish garbage like "If she didn't scream, she must have enjoyed it."
Did she ever go back?
Shout not have messed up her original family
So sad
A tradegy for her mother
Well she had "Native American" facial features.. in my opinion.
Watch the movie: The Searchers
While I appreciate the work, Empire of the Summer Moon tells a much more compelling story.
I second the recommendation. The true story of Quanah Parker and his mother is one of those “you really can’t make this up” compelling stories.
No she wasn't happy. She wanted to stay with the indigenous people.
AI pics aren't helpful
I’m a descendant of hers. At least in family stories. I was adopted but found my biological mother and her people. Both of her sides were from Oklahoma and Texas. I’m very proud of this heritage, much more than the European ancestors of mine
I have a direct descendant living down the hall from me. He is a walking wealth of knowledge regarding his family - his grandmother made sure he and his siblings knew all about them-
@@robinlewis5374 that’s cool. I would love to know more. When I retire I want to do more research. I’m connected by my biological mother not the parents that raised me
@@jeanniearnold6726 Why did your biological mother not raise you?
@@ghostlyimageoffear6210 it was 1960. And that’s just how they handled it back then. She was sent to a home for unwed mothers to wait out the pregnancy and have me. I always knew I was adopted and my parents were the best parents ever. But I found her out of curiosity
So what happened with her, 1/2 a story is not a story
She died in East Texas in 1870 of pneumonia, NOT a broken heart, and NOT starving herself to death. She was 42 or 43.
After bring brought back, unwillingly, to her Uncle Isaac Parker's house in Birdville in Dec. 1860, she kept trying to leave to find her husband and sons. Her daughter was with her. Her daughter died of pneumonia around age 3. She never saw her husband and sons again. She went to live with her sister, Orlena Parker O'Quinn in East Texas (Henderson or Van Zandt County). That didn't last long, either. Her sister didn't know her, being only 5 months old when she was taken. Ultimately Cynthia was given her own log cabin to live out her days. She made friends of the Padgett couple who taught her how to raise and cook vegetables. She received a pension from the state, which her uncle secured for her in Austin.
I have issues with how these stories are romanticized. In this narration you neglect to speak of what happened at the fort - how many were butchered. Cynthia Ann was about 11 according to her uncle who was there, and witnessed her own parents and grandfather brutally killed. We have two accounts of this attack by eye witnesses. Through the years a story has evolved that she, after her return, was so terribly enamoured of the Indians that she wanted to return. I would guess it is more likely that 1) her children were still with the Indians, and 2) she didn't even speak the English language, after being held for 18 years of her life. It is understandable that she had a horrible time finding her way back in white culture and would have wanted to return to where her sons were and a language and culture she knew. That does not mean her captivity was fine and dandy. It means she was a little girl whose life was stolen and became a troubled adult. To pretend otherwise is not only disrespectful to her memory but to those others of her family who were murdered or captured (including her own teenaged cousin who later returned; see Rachel Parker Kellogg). This story that she "died of a broken heart" is a story that has been pushed by native Americans. In reality she died many years after her return to white society, of other causes. It is also a myth that she was held captive by her relatives upon return. She could not communicate with them, and no one would have known her feelings or motives. She had horrible memories of the massacre at the fort and of her hardships amongst the Indians; she also had a history of family with the tribe.. I think most intelligent people can put two and two together. Among so many stories of children kidnapped and held for years this is one of the saddest.
That isn't Cynthia Ann Parker. I have never seen a picture of her that didn't have the tattoos.
The picture you’re referring to is of another captive woman who took her place and was tattooed as a young woman of the Mohave tribe. Her name was Olive Oatman and she was from here in Arizona. Her family gave rise to the tourist city of Oatman.
I was born in Mexico, and adopted out of a Mexican orphanage to become the daughter to Anglo American parents and raised to be Anglo. The language I spoke went away but not the color of my skin. I was Mexican but not, looked Mexican but not in thought or culture. Two worlds , one skin. Not Mexican but except when looking in the mirror. It causes dislocation
@@christineeast9879 Yep, got my ladies mixed up. Thanks. Familiar with the Oatman family.
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I was adopted and raised by a family that was culturally similar. You lose everything that is valuable to people who have not been adopted, and are made to feel guilty for your feelings.
American law allows adoptees who were removed to locate their birth family. This is because, unlike everyone else in the adoption process, you had legal standing and yet had no say in the matter. When you yourself were the most affected by the adoption process.
Look for adoption groups that will support you in your personal identity and your search for your birth culture. YOU ARE NORMAL, YOU HAVE APPROPRIATE FEELINGS AND A RIGHT TO BE SEEN AS WHO YOU ARE, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. Mil besos, mi hermanita a thousand kisses, little sister. ❤
Then you haven't seen a photo of the real Cynthia Ann Parker. She only had two photos taken of her in life, The first was of her nursing her daughter, taken in Fort Worth in December, 1860. The second, in Austin, showed her with a heavy leather coat on. Her face was not tattooed, and no other part of her was uncovered in either photo. None of the photos in this blog was her, Quanah, the Comanche or Parker's Fort.
I work at the museum that has her Uncle Isaac Parker's cabin, where she was brought back to at age 34.
She DID NOT DIE of a broken heart or starving herself as the common myth perpetuates. She died of pneumonia at age 43 in 1870, ten years after her second kidnapping. She appears on the 1870 census.
Not in spirit
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