Padouca

[Alan H. Hartley]

Rory M Larson wrote:

> ("Padouca" name: How far east is it known?)
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>>In various forms, it's attested in Miami, Shawnee, Sauk, and Meskwaki.
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>>Dave
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> These tribes were all transferred to northeastern Kansas near the Kaw
> and the Iowa-Oto in about 1846, weren't they?  Could it have come
> into their languages at that time, or do we have evidence that they
> used the "Padouca" name before then?

SOMEbody used the name a lot earlier: in the first decade of the 18c. we
have French Panetonka and Panetoca, and in 1718 "Pays des Apaches et des
Padoucas".

Alan