Wichita
Americannoun
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Wichitas
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a member of a tribe of North American Indians, originally of Kansas but relocated in Oklahoma after the Civil War.
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the Caddoan language of the Wichita.
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a city in S Kansas, on the Arkansas River.
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Pilots declared an emergency, dropped oxygen masks in the cabin, and turned back to Wichita, Kan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Offered $100 a week to sing at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, Callan replied, “I don’t know know whether my daddy would let me do that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
The first Pizza Hut restaurant opened in 1958 in Wichita, Kan., and after 1980 its pan pizza carried the chain to nationwide popularity.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
Pizza Hut was founded in 1958, the brainchild of two brothers in Wichita, Kansas.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
She flew home to Kansas and arrived by taxi on Saturday morning at her family’s plot at a graveyard in Wichita just as the funeral service began.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
I packed up my spartan encampment and made one last stop at Lost Lake, the first reservoir constructed in the Wichitas, where I stretched my restless legs along the meandering Kite Trail.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
God bless the ancient Wichitas, rising like bare knuckles from the dirt.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
The cultural history includes an overview of native peoples nationwide along with the four Indian tribes who once lived on what is now park property - the Kiowas, Wichitas, Cheyennes and Comanches.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2014
The earth-covered house seems to be an evolution from the thatched house of the southern plains, exemplified in the dwellings of the Wichitas.
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg
In the same way Pŭk-tĭs´-tu—toward the Omahas, has come to mean north; and Ki´ri-ku´ruks-tu—toward the Wichitas, to mean south.
From Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by George Bird Grinnell
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