("Padouca" name: How far east is it known?)
> In various forms, it's attested in Miami, Shawnee, Sauk, and Meskwaki.
>
> Dave
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?
Rory