Wanada Parker Page (1882-1970)She was brought into the world in 1882 in Indian Domain.

Wanada Parker Page (1882-1970)

She was brought into the world in 1882 in Indian Domain. Her Indian name was Woon-ardy Parker. "Woon-ardy" in Comanche signifies "Stand Up and Be Solid," since she was frail in the appendages and needed to stroll on props for quite a while. Mrs. Page had additionally been given her mom's name, Weckeah.

She went to Chilocco Indian School, then in 1894 was shipped off Carlisle Indian School, Dad. where she stayed quite a while with her relative Harold (most seasoned of Quanah's children) and her stepsister Neda.

At Carlisle, her name was spelled from the outset "Juanada" until it was protested that she was not Mexican or Spanish. She was submersed under the name of "Annie" in 1895 at St. John's Episcopal Church in Carlisle, yet no one called her that.

Wanada went to the Stronghold Ledge Indian School for about a year, around 1903, living in a young lady's edge quarters.

In 1908 she wedded Walter Komah, a Comanche. They went to Mescalero, N.M., where he passed on from tuberculosis in 1912. Wanada got back to Lawton not long after that. She worked at Stronghold Ledge Indian School as partner lady while her sister Alice was an understudy.

In 1915 she turned into a medical caretaker's helper at the Stronghold Ledge Indian Emergency clinic and it was during her work there that she met her future spouse, Harrison Page. He was a white trooper in the Clinical Corps relegated to the Station Clinic at Post Ledge. They drove by road vehicle during their romance and were hitched on Dec. 18, 1916.

In her later years, Mrs. Page went to the principal Parker Family Gathering at Stronghold Parker, Tex., in 1953, when the Indian Parkers of Oklahoma and the white Parkers of Texas held their most memorable yearly party.