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Oklahoma History
Chapter Five
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| coureurs de bois | Frenchmen who traded and lived with Indians, learned Indian ways and language and often took Indian women as wives |
| Deer Creek Village | Wichita town where stock was raised and meat was processed |
| Ethnohistorian | a person who studies the historical development of cultures |
| Lousiana | area sold by Napoleon Bonaparte to the United States in 1803 |
| middens | trash heaps |
| New Spain | name given to Mexico by Spaniards |
| pueblos | town:Spanish colonizers used this term to describe the permanent Indian Settlements they encountered in present day New Mexico and Arizona |
| Quivira | a place believed by Spanish colonizers to offer incredible wealth, where even common folk ate off of silver plates and drank from golden bowls |
| runestone | an object found near Heavener, Oklahoma, bearing markings that may have been made by Norsemen |
| Seven Cities of Cibola | town rumored among Spanish colonizers to have houses whose walls were made of solid gold and doors of turquoise |
| Twin Villages | settlements established in the mid-1700's by the Wichitas on opposite sides of the Red River |