The Kichai tribe (also Keechi or Kitsai) was a Native American Southern Plains tribe that lived in Texas, [2] Louisiana, and Oklahoma. Their name for themselves was K'itaish.

Jul 1, 1995 · The Kichais, a Caddoan Indian tribe linguistically related to the Pawnees, were on the upper waters of the Red River in Louisiana and as far south as the headwaters of the Trinity River in Texas by 1701. In 1719 Jean Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe met the Kichai Indians on the Canadian River en route to New Mexico to fight the Apaches. The tribe ...

Jan 15, 2010 · The Kichai originally were a Caddoan tribe, and their language is closest to that of the Pawnee. At the time of the Francisco Vásquez de Coronado expedition in 1541, there were about thirty thousand Wichita, including the Kichai. In the 1700s most Kichai lived along the Red River in Texas and Louisiana.

The Kichai tribe was a Native American Southern Plains tribe that lived in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. Their name for themselves was K'itaish.

The Kitsai (Kichai) are the least known of the Caddoan language groups. The Kitsai tribe no longer exists as a separate entity; surviving members joined the Wichita in the mid-1800s.

The Kitsai tribe, also known as the Kichai, resided in the northeastern part of Texas. They were part of the Caddoan language family and were known for their agricultural practices. The Kitsai people cultivated crops such as corn, beans, and squash, which played a …

The Kitsai (also Kichai) language is an extinct member of the Caddoan language family. [2] The French first record the Kichai people's presence along the upper Red River in 1701. [3] By the 1840s Kitsai was spoken in southern Oklahoma, but by the 1930s no native speakers remained.

Kichai Indians (from K’itsäsh, their own name). A Caddoan tribe whose language is more closely allied to the Pawnee than to the other Caddoan groups. In 1701 they were met by the French on the upper waters of the Red river of Louisiana and had spread southward to …

Kitsai is a Caddoan language of the Southern Plains. The Kitsai language is no longer spoken, though many Kitsai people survived and still live among their kinfolk the Wichita today. Our list of vocabulary words in the Kitsai language, with comparison to words in other Caddoan languages. Ethnologue entry for the Kitsai language.

The history of the Kichai tribe. In the 1700s most of the Kichai (also known as the Keechi or Kitsai) people lived near the Red river in Texas and Louisiana. Kichai clothing The men wore kilts (skirts) and women wore dresses, and they both wore ankle -leather high moccasins.