Wichita Indians.The Wichita band of Indians was one of several bands that composed the Wichita confederacy. The name Wichita is first found in the early seventeenth century in historical records of French traders, who used the word Ousitas to identify one band of Indians who lived near the Arkansas River in present Oklahoma. In the nineteenth century the name came to be used to refer to several confederated bands who recognized a common progenitor and had similar traditions and culture. The Wichita called themselves Kitikiti'sh, meaning "raccoon eyes," because the designs of tattoos around the men's eyes resembled the eyes of the raccoon. In central Kansas in 1541 the Coronado expedition visited Indians whom Coronado called Quiviras and who have been identified by archeological and historical studies as Wichitas. By 1719 these people had moved south to Oklahoma and were called Ousitas by the French trader Jean Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe. From the 1750s to 1810 one band of the Wichita Indians was on the Red River north of the site of present Nocona, Texas. The Wichitas, during this period, were prominent middlemen in the trade between the Comanches on the plains and Louisiana merchants and were at the zenith of their power and prestige. Warriors of the band accompanied the Comanches in the attack on the Spanish Santa Cruz de San Sabá Mission in 1758, and the Red River villages withstood a retaliatory strike by the Spanish in 1759. In 1772 Athanase de Mézières, commandant of the Spanish post at Natchitoches, Louisiana, visited a band of Quedsitas on the upper Brazos River; in 1784 Texas Governor Domingo Cabello y Robles reported Guachita depredations in the San Antonio area; and periodically, beginning in 1787, Guichitas or Huichitas regularly visited San Antonio. The America agent at Natchitoches in 1805 identified one of the Red River villages as the Wicheta.
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Baugh, Timothy G. "Wichita Inspirations: Virgil R. Swift." Plains Anthropologist, vol. 53, no. 208, 2008, pp. 375-376. ProQuest, link to article
Abstract: There he discovered that African Americans treated American Indian soldiers with more respect than southern whites did as he and a fellow Arapaho soldier were denied service at one mainstream establishment after another even as they wore the uniform of the United States Army. Today, this exhibit remains open to the public at the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes Cultural Center in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Because of his strong understanding and appreciation of his people's traditional ways, Virgil also began serving as the Director of Historic Preservation in 1982. [...]he concluded that the only true way to unravel the puzzle of Wichita biology was through DNA studies.
Perkins, Stephen M., and Timothy G. Baugh. "Protohistory and the Wichita." Plains Anthropologist, vol. 53, no. 208, 2008, pp. 381-394. ProQuest, link to article
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