Quanah Parker (c. 1845–1911), the last Comanche war chief, led his people in the Red River War (1874–75) in Texas. He was the son of Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white woman captured as a child and raised by the Comanche. His intense charisma was enhanced by a striking physical feature: the bright blue eyes he inherited from his mother. After the Red River War, Parker and his band were settled on a reservation in southwestern Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). Thereafter, he became a forceful advocate of civilization. He took up ranching, which made him wealthy. He was appointed a judge on the Court of Indian Offenses but was dismissed when it was discovered that he himself had committed one of the “crimes” by having multiple wives. In these brief remarks, delivered when he reinterred his mother’s remains near his home, Parker expressed his belief in assimilation.