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visit the villages on the Missouri; the Handbook identifies these people as Comanche.

P. 106: Alitan or Snake Indians French nickname Gens du Serpent, speak Alitan language. Very numerous; have many horses; all tribes on Missouri war on them; there are three divisions : I. Aliatan, Snakes, or S6-so-na, trade with Crows and have some trade with Spaniards; 2. Those of the West who live west of the mountains; 3. La Playes occupy plains from head of Arkansas south across the Red river.

P. 108: Padoucas English name, French nickname Padoo, Padoucies is their own tongue. Live in villages on heads of Platte and Arkansas, trade with New Mexico; many horses. Yet almost immediately Clark says he could get no definite information about this once powerful nation, and quotes French writers. Speaks of a fork of the Platte bearing the name of the tribe and conjectures that the nation had broken up and become individual small tribes. This from Penicaut.

All this including the Key to the Tribes used in Indian Statistics, vol. v, p. 82, shows that from Lewis and Clark we learn little more than this : that in 1804 the one tribe well known at the upper Missouri villages who were called Padouca were the Cataka.

Pike's Exploration made in 1806. Coues Edition. Coues points out that Pike's Tetaus is a misprint or corruption from letans, which is evident. On the map at the end of the third volume is indicated letan country. Other plains tribes villages are indicated on Kansas, Platte, and Loup rivers.

P. 535 : the Tetaus who occupy the heads of Red and Arkansas rivers, the Canadian, and the Arkansas and extend to the Del Norte and the Utahs and Kyawas who live in the "mountains of North Mexico," are the enemies of the Pawnee.

P. 536: "The Tetaus, Camanches, as the Spanish termed them [called] Padoucas by the Pawnees," the word "called" is inserted in brackets. This information was given Pike by the French interpreter and seems to show beyond question that at this date the French on the lower Missouri identified the Padouca as Com- anche. I do not suppose that the Pawnee generally used the term

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