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Podcast: Native ChocTalk
Episode: S9, E3, Pt 3: From Boarding School to Recovery: LaNora Parker, Comanche
Description: PART 3
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Join me in this 3-part series as LaNora Parker, great-granddaughter of legendary Comanche leader Quanah Parker, shares her story of leadership, survival, and healing.
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LaNora was one of the first women to serve as Vice Chairman and Interim Chairwoman of the Comanche Nation. She reflects on her family’s powerful legacy—her father, Simmons Parker, was a Comanche Code Talker and WWII hero—and how that shaped her path.
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She opens up about the painful realities of Native boarding schools, the loneliness, and cultural erasure she experienc...