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While in Kansas, the Coronado expedition was told by the 

 natives about a land and people to the north similar in ways of life 

 to themselves. The Spaniards recorded the name given them as 

 Harahey or Arahey. We have discussed the possible derivations 

 of this name under xA-rikara and Wichita above. It has generally 

 been accepted that the country to which Turk first brought the 

 Spaniards was Wichita country. No doubt the statements of 

 Spanish accounts that the houses were made of grass is part of this 

 evidence. But there survives among the Pawnees a tradition to 

 the effect that long ago their lodges were grass-covered, and that 

 only as they came into colder northern regions did they cover the 

 lodges with mud. Thus it seems to us possible that it was to a 

 relatively southern group of Pawnee villages that Turk led the 

 Spaniards, and that Harahey was intended to refer to the Arikara 

 further north. This cannot be substantiated, however, by present 

 usage of the Pawnee for the Arikara. 



Coronado and his men were told that the nation was ruled by 

 Tatarrax. This is certainly a Pawnee word, tatara'k — forming the 

 first person inclusive plural of all Pawnee verbs. The most prob- 

 able form for which it was intended is tatara'k""", "one of us is 

 present (sitting)". It is, however, not a personal name.^ 



Ysopete, the name of the Plains Indian who supplanted Turk in 

 the confidence of the Spaniards, seems to be a Wichita word. 



'James R. Murie considered Tatarrax as probably intended for taturash 

 (ta'turas), "I found it", stating that a Pawnee with that name died after the 

 removal of the tribe to Oklahoma. See note by F. W. Hodge in Amer. Anthrop. 

 n. s., vol. 17, pp. 215-216, 1915. 



