The Wichita Indians

The first recording of The Wichita Indians dated back all the way to the 1500s by a spanish explorer named, Francis Vazquez de Coronado. Coronado explored the American Southwest in the early 1500s in search for riches. The Wichita tribe’s origin was discovered specifically in 1541 near the area of the Arkansas River which is now considered the south-central Kansas. The ancestors of the Wichita however lived in the eastern Great Plains from the Red River north to Nebraska for at least two thousand years. Like any other civilization, the Wichita had people that were hunters and gatherers who later adapted to agriculture. The first farming villages were presented around 900 CE, the food the Wichita grew composed of beans, squash, and
The skin tipi was used when away from home. It was composed of a framework of sturdy poles overlaid with grass thatch around the perimeter so that it could be presented from a distance as a haystack. Inside, the Wichita had beds on elevated platforms, while having a fire hole right in the center. The home also had doorways in which faced east, and west and a smoke hole on the side of the roof near the apex. Both male and female went nearly naked, the men wearing a breechcloth made from deerskin, or made from cloth in which was worn between their legs, and tucked over a belt, so that the flaps fall down in front, and behind. Women on the other hand weared short skirts. Both male and female from their lavish tattooing were meant preeminently as the, “tattooed people”, in a sign language. Men and women generally wore their hair flowing loosely as well. The Wichita buried their dead in the ground, constructing a small framework in an area with
The men would mainly go hunting and would go on war parties, as well as cut big sturdy poles that can be crafted into use for the houses, and the men also made their own weapons. The women on the other hand were responsible for doing stuff that kept the village and the families going. Women were accountable for tanning, and painting the hides, caring for the crops, sewing up the clothes, preparing the food, fencing the fields, covering the grass houses, fetching some firewood, gathering most of the food, and finally tending to the