* Wichita people speak a Caddoan language.

Another, much more believable etymology for the name is insisted on by speakers of Wichita, the language of the tribe which used to live in the area but now lives mostly around Anadarko, Oklahoma.

Source: Dr. David S. Rood, linguist at the University of Colorado, who has been studying the Wichita language since 1965.

* Wichita language, the language of the tribe

Wichita is a moribund Caddoan language spoken in Oklahoma by the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes.

Wichita could soon become extinct, however, the tribe offers classes to revitalize the language and works in partnership with Wichita Documentation Project of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Wichita is a member of the Caddoan language family, along with modern Caddo, Pawnee, Arikara, and Kitsai.

This has occurred in Wichita, in which an old vowel / u / ( preserved in the related language Pawnee ) has merged with / i /.

However, the Wichita vowel system is not phonetically vertical, as / a / is realised as open back, / e / as open-mid front, and / i / as close to close-mid front ; hence, the feature back is relevant to the phonetics of the language, even though it is not a salient phonological distinction.

The Kitsai language is now extinct, as its members were absorbed in the 19th century into the Wichita tribe.

The language that became Wichita ( with several different dialects ) branched off about 2, 000 years ago.

History, they spoke the Wichita language, a Caddoan language.

The Wichita spoke a Caddoan language.

The Teyas, if in fact they were Wichita, were probably the ancestors of the Iscani and Waco, although they might also have been the Kichai, who spoke a different language but later joined the Wichita tribe.

After the Americans took over their territory as a result of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the independence of Texas in 1836, all the related tribes were increasingly lumped together and dubbed “ Wichita .” That designation also included the Kichai of northern Texas who spoke a different although a related language.

One person left who speaks ' Wichita ' Interview with Doris McLemore, " the last fluent speaker of Wichitan language ".

Caddo is linguistically related to the members of the Northern Caddoan language family ; these include the Pawnee-Kitsai ( Keechi ) languages ( Arikara, Kitsai, and Pawnee ) and the Wichita language.

The Texas longhorn stock slowly dwindled, until in 1927 the breed was saved from near extinction by enthusiasts from the United States Forest Service, who collected a small herd of stock to breed on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Lawton, Oklahoma.

The early Wichita people were hunters and gatherers who slowly adopted agriculture, about 900 AD farming villages began to appear on terraces above the Washita River and South Canadian River in Oklahoma.

His paintings may be found in the collections of Amon Carter Museum ( Fort Worth, Texas ); Museum of New Mexico ( Santa Fe, New Mexico ); St. Louis Art Museum ; murals in the Missouri State Capitol ( Jefferson City, Missouri ); Gilcrease Museum ( Tulsa, Oklahoma ); Stark Museum of Art ( Orange, Texas ); Nelson-Atkins Museum ; Wichita Art Museum ; and others.

They had moved back to Wichita from Oklahoma during the American Civil War because of their pro-Union sentiments.

Particularly destructive tornadoes have struck the Wichita area several times in the course of its history: in September 1965, during the Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak of April 1991, and during the Oklahoma tornado outbreak of May 1999.

In addition, two lines of the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad enter the city, one from the northwest and the other from the southwest, both terminating at their junction in west-central Wichita.

Elk City is also in close proximity to many other attractions in Western Oklahoma, including the Flying W Guest Ranch, Foss State Park, the Washita National Wildlife Refuge, Black Kettle National Grassland, the Wichita Mountains, the Antelope Hills, the Quartz Mountains, the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site, and the Black Kettle Museum.

Situated at the foot of the Wichita Mountains, Granite, Oklahoma is home to significant mining operations.

In 1872 they joined other Wichita tribes on a reservation in Oklahoma.

Vernon is located fifty miles northwest of Wichita Falls, Texas and approximately 160 to 180 miles from surrounding metropolitan areas including Amarillo, Abilene, Oklahoma City and the DFW metroplex.

That same day, tornadoes also devastated the larger, nearby cities of Wichita Falls, Texas and Lawton, Oklahoma.

The Wichita at this time were not unified, but rather a large number of related tribes scattered over most of Kansas and Oklahoma.

* One of the U. S .' s longest running passion plays is held at the Holy City of the Wichitas located within the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.

Near Elmer, Oklahoma, the North Fork finally joins, and the river proceeds to follow a winding course east through one of the most arid parts of the Great Plains, receiving the Wichita River from the right as it passes the city of Wichita Falls.

In places where snowfall is typical, such as Utica, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit, Bismarck, Fargo, Rapid City, Sioux Falls, Omaha, St. Louis, Des Moines, Wichita, Denver, Albuquerque, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Flagstaff, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Portland, Chicago, Syracuse, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Toronto, such small snowfalls are rarely disruptive, because of effective snow and ice removal by municipalities, increased use of four-wheel drive and snow tires, and drivers being more used to winter conditions.

Important cities along the Arkansas river include Pueblo, Colorado ; Wichita, Kansas ; Tulsa, Oklahoma ; Fort Smith and Little Rock, Arkansas.

Petrofina expanded its operations to the United States in 1956 with the purchase of Texas-based Panhandle Oil Company, which was headquartered in Wichita Falls, Texas, where the firm operated an oil refinery and marketed gasoline through service stations in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.

* Wichita Mountains, a small mountain range in southwest Oklahoma

South of Wichita, in Garfield County, Oklahoma, tornado chasers ( including Warren Faidley, Gene Moore, Howard Bluestein, KJRH-TV meteorologist Gary Shore and many other big-name chasers ) observed the touchdown of what would be the longest tracked tornado of the outbreak.

Wichita saw some of its fasted population growth of the 20th century during the peak of the cold war when Wichita was the headquarters for the Boeing Military Airplane Company and home to the McConnell Air Force Base.

Due to the long travel distances involved in divisional play, the Caps played some home games in places like Wichita, Kansas and even Mexico City, Mexico but did not fare well in those supposed home games.

Spiro mounds, some of the most elaborate in the United States, were made by ancestors of the Caddo and Wichita.

The airport, at that time, was located about six miles from the city of Wichita and comprised some 1, 337 acres.

By the end of 1942, due to the growth and expansion of the organization it occupied practically the entire building save for a few offices occupied by the CAA and airline companies, while some activities of the district were housed at the Boeing Airplane Company Plant No. 1, in Wichita.

On June 3, 1950, Harvey's 26th birthday, he married Bernice " Bea " Brady, a girl from Wichita some five years his junior.

On March 27, 2009 Dr. George Tiller was found not guilty of all 19 misdemeanor charges stemming from some abortions he performed at his Wichita clinic in 2003.

State championships for baseball and softball are held at the same time as the track championship, usually at community colleges or large recreational fields, although some championships have been held at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium in Wichita, home of the National Baseball Congress tournament and the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball's Wichita Wingnuts, as well as Hoglund Ballpark at KU in Lawrence.

Many, including some Wichita police officers, have speculated that the fact that a book about BTK was being written was what caused the killer to reemerge in 2004, which led to his arrest the following year.