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Padouca. They had their own name for the Comanches, La ri ta, from which possibly might be derived La li tanes, Laitanes, and perhaps Alitans, which however Mooney derives from letan.
P. 536: The Tetaus are a powerful nation, wandering, do not plant; bounded on south by tribes of Lower Red river, on west by Spanish settlements, on east by Osages, Pawnees, and others, and on north by Utahs, Kyaways, and unknown tribes.
P. 591 : Statistical Table says Tetan, English name; Comanche,
Indian name; , French name; 8200 people. Then he says, the
Osages made war on the Tetaus, on several other tribes, and on the Padoucas. This points to the Padouca as distinct from the Tetau and others.
James in Long's Expedition, Philadelphia, 1823. Mentions the Padouca in only two places.
The Pawnees, through a French interpreter, described the tribes with which the Skidi war party had a big battle south of the Arkansas in the winter of 1819-20, as letans, Arrapahoes, and Kiawas.
If Padouca was the name used by the Pawnees generally for the Comanche, as Pike states, why did not the Pawnee and Oto speak of them by that name to James in 1820, instead of using the term letan?
We have, in 1802, du Lac speaking of Halisanes, Halitanes, Tete Pelees, and Baldheads; Lewis and Clark, 1804, Alitans, or La Plays; and James, 1820, letan, or La Plais, "Bald Heads, and a few Shoshone or Snake Indians," and in another place "Ietans Comanche, or Snakes."
In 1820 there was a famous Oto chief named letan who got his name from his exploits against that tribe. If Padouca was the Oto and Pawnee name for the Comanche, why was not this man called Padouca instead of letan? i ;
Journal of Jacob Fowler, 1821-22. In November 1821, Glenn and Fowler's party met Kiowas, and two or three days later 350 lodges of Highatans. These people held a council and demanded the presents which Major Long had promised them when he had met them in 1820. Fowler on counting the increasing camp found
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