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Wich·i·ta¹ (w

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n. pl. Wichita or Wich·i·tas

a. A Native American confederacy formerly inhabiting south-central Kansas and later moving southward into Oklahoma and Texas, with a present-day population in southwest Oklahoma.

b. A member of this confederacy.

2. The Caddoan language of the Wichita.

[Caddo wííc'ita.]

Wich·i·ta² (w

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)

A city of south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River southwest of Kansas City. It was founded in the 1860s on the site of an earlier Wichita Village and boomed as a cow town after the coming of the railroad in 1872. Population: 358,000.

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