Quivira was a province of the ancestral Wichita people, located near the Great Bend of the Arkansas River in central Kansas, The exact site may be near present-day Lyons extending northeast to Salina.
A sketch of a Wichita community in the 19th century. The beehive-shaped grass lodges surrounded by cornfields are characteristic and appear similar to those described by Coronado in 1541.
Route of the Coronado Expedition, 1540–1542
Depiction of Coronado's expedition. Coronado sets out to the north, oil painting by Frederic Remington, c. 1900
Coronado found the Teyas Indians in Blanco Canyon, east of present-day Lubbock, Texas. The Querechos lived on the flat Llano Estacado above the canyon.
The Wichita people, or Kitikiti'sh, are a confederation of Southern Plains Native American tribes. Historically they spoke the Wichita language and Kichai language, both Caddoan languages. They are indigenous to Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas.
Wichita grass lodge, near Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory, c. 1885–1900
Trade beads found at a Wichita village site, c. 1740, collection of the Oklahoma History Center
Geophysical image depicting the subsurface archaeological footprint of a Great Bend aspect council circle
Wichita camp, 1904
