The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wichitas \Wich"i*tas\ (w[i^]ch"[i^]*t[add]z), prop. n. pl.; sing. Wichita (w[i^]ch"[i^]*t[add]). (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians native of the region between the Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees.
Usage examples of "wichitas".
They crossed the Canadian near Newcastle, and soon afterward met with the first of the real plains Indians they had seenâa party of blanketed Wichitas, whose leader talked freely under the spell of the whiskey offered him, and taught poor Walker a long-winded protective charm against Yig in exchange for a quart bottle of the same inspiring fluid.
Every now and then he rode over to the cluster of thatched, conical huts which formed the main village of the Wichitas, and talked long with the old men and shamans about the snake-god and how to nullify his wrath.
He said his own band ranged west of the Wichitas, as close to the reservation line as they could manage without making the Great Father angry.
So we'd best head up into the woody Wichitas and see if we can't make Fort Sill the long way round instead.
He told his parents that he and Walker had been captured by some strange Indiansânot Wichitas or Caddosâand held prisoners somewhere toward the west.
It is the old home of the Wichitas, before the Sioux drove them south into what is now Oklahoma, and some of the grass-house village sites have been found and excavated for artifacts.