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Author Smith, F. Todd (Foster Todd), 1957-

Title The Wichita Indians : traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540-1845 / F. Todd Smith
Published College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 206 pages) : maps
Series Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 87
Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 87
Contents Wichitas and the Spanish Entrada -- Wichitas and the French Entrée -- Negotiations with Spain, 1760-1771 -- Peace with Spain, 1772-1779 -- Tenuous coexistence: the Wichitas and Spain, 1780-1803 -- Wichitas between two empires, 1804-1821 -- Wichitas and Mexican Texas, 1821-1835 -- Wichitas and the Republic of Texas, 1836-1845
Summary Historian F. Todd Smith provides background information on the Wichita Indians provenance -- the separate tribes of Taovagas, Tawakones, Kichais, Wacos, and other bands whose shared language and culture helped unite them for survival when external pressures increased
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index
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Subject Wichita Indians -- First contact with other peoples
Wichita Indians -- Commerce
Wichita Indians -- Land tenure
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Discoveries in geography
Politics and government
Race relations
Wichita Indians -- First contact with other peoples
Wichita Indians -- Land tenure
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
America -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004240
Subject America
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585377049
9780585377049