padoucas

Updated: December 23, 2024

A way thither was at last made known by two brothers named Mallet, who with six companions went up the Platte to its South Fork, which they called River of the Padoucas, a name given it on some maps down to the middle of this century. They followed the South Fork for some distance, and then, turning southward and southwestward, crossed the plains of Colorado.

Francis Parkman - A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II

He had struck dead bodies of individuals of all the Red nations around; Osages, Konzas, Pawnee Loups, Pawnee Republicans, Grand Pawnees, Puncas, Omawhaws, Sioux, Padoucas, La Plain, or Bald heads, Iëtans, Sacs, Foxes, and Ioways. He had struck eight of one nation, seven of another, &c.

Benjamin Drake - Great Indian Chief of the West: Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk

Nor was this hunter without the qualities of a warrior. When the Padoucas came, with hostile intent, to the borders of the lake Caddoque; among those who first took down the spear, and braided the scalp-lock, was Sakechak, the hunter of the little hill Wecheganawaw.

James Athearn Jones - Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2

This tribe is always mentioned in the early French narratives as the Padoucas, a name by which the Comanches are occasionally known to this day. Bourgmont pitched his tents at a pistol-shot from the Comanche lodges, whence a crowd of warriors presently came to visit him.

Francis Parkman - A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II