White Parker

Male, Deceased Person

1887 – 1956

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Who was White Parker?

White Parker was a son of Mah-Cheeta-Wookey and Quanah Parker, chief of the Comanches. He married Laura E. Clark, a daughter of Reverend and Mrs. M. A. Clark, a former Methodist missionary to the Comanches. They had at least three childrenPatty Bertha, Cynthia Ann Joy, and Milton Quanah. White Parker felt called to do missionary work among the Comanche people. He studied for this ministry at Cook Bible School in Phoenix, Arizona. He joined the Methodist Conference and performed his mission work under their supervision. The Parkers were active in the 1920s and 30s Saturday afternoon street meetings in Lawton, Oklahoma, which was led by Dr. J. Leighton Read.

In 1920, Parker played a lead role in the silent film, "The Daughter of Dawn," a silent film directed by Norbert A. Myles shot in the Wichita Mountains of Southwest Oklahoma. The story, played by an all-Indian cast of 300 Kiowas and Comanches, includes themes of love story, battle, dance, deceit, combat, and concludes with a happy ending. This is a historically important film in American cinema as it is the first full length movie of an American Indian story, and that uses all American Indian actors. The film was restored by the Oklahoma Historical Society and has been digitized.

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Born
1887
Parents
Ethnicity
  • Comanche
Died
1956

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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