![]() ![]() ![]() Shuffled through three different households, escape was never far from her mind. Her strange behavior and stubbornness to let go of her Indian ways caused most of her family to scorn her. She had forgotten everything about her early life and felt she had been ripped from her true family. But Naduah, as she was now known, did not want live with the strange white people. Twenty-five years after her abduction, the Indian camp was in turn raided, and the Parker family was ready to welcome her home with open arms, along with her one-year-old daughter. She married well and produced three children. ![]() She forgot not only the English language, but also her previous life and the violent murder of her loved ones and abuse of her early days in the camp. Adopted by a stern and mostly unkindly couple, she worked hard and eventually became a credit to her new family. She and her siblings were carried away, separated and sent to live among the tribe. Nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker’s family had been settled in Texas for two years when their home was raided by Comanche Indians. ![]()
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