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Fort Sill National Cemetery. / 34.7638911°N 98.3474556°W / 34.7638911; -98.3474556. Fort Sill National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Elgin in Comanche County, Oklahoma. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 391.3 acres (158.4 ha), and as of 2021 had more ...
Fort Sill is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Oklahoma City. It covers almost 94,000 acres (38,000 ha). It covers almost 94,000 acres (38,000 ha).
262 Holy City Rd. 34°44′32″N 98°35′28″W. / 34.7423°N 98.5910°W / 34.7423; -98.5910 ( Holy City of the Wichitas Historic District) Medicine Park vicinity. Site of the longest running passion play in North America (1926). Permanent sets were built with native granite in the west end of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.
Quanah Parker (Comanche: Kwana, lit. ' smell, odor '; c. 1845 – February 23, 1911) was a war leader of the Kwahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche Nation.He was likely born into the Nokoni ("Wanderers") band of Tabby-nocca and grew up among the Kwahadis, the son of Kwahadi Comanche chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, an Anglo-American who had been abducted as an eight-year-old child ...
Geronimo's grave at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 2005 In 2006, Marc Wortman discovered a 1918 letter from Skull and Bones member Winter Mead to F. Trubee Davison that claimed the theft: [ 79 ] The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club ... is now safe inside the [Tomb], and bone together with his ...
The plant has faced organized opposition by Westwin Resistance, led by a Native American-led grassroots group, that says it threatens tribal sovereignty, residents' health and the environment. The ...
In 1957 the State of Oklahoma moved their graves to Old Post Cemetery in Fort Sill, Commanche County, Oklahoma, on what is known as Chief's Knoll. In 1965 the state of Texas had Prairie Flower moved from her grave in Edom, Van Zandt County, Texas to join her mother and brother. [9]
Cynthia Ann Parker, Naduah, Narua, or Preloch [ 7] ( Comanche: Na'ura, IPA [naʔura], lit. 'Was found'; [ 8] October 28, 1827 [ nb 1] – March 1871), [ 1] was a woman who was captured, aged around nine, by a Comanche band during the Fort Parker massacre in 1836, where several of her relatives were killed. She was taken with several of her ...