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or Padoo were not Comanche, that they were supposed to inhabit the country near the Upper Platte, and that some of them at times traded at the Missouri.
Trudeau, 1795, Missouri Historical Society Collections, vol. IV, p. 31, describes the Pados almost exactly as du Lac has done and seems also to locate them on the heads of the Loup river. La Salle, in 1680, when on the Illinois river was visited by Indians from the west and they spoke to him about the Gattahka and other tribes among whom were the Pasos. Were these perhaps the Pados?
Lewis and Clark Original Journals , vol. I, p. 190, gives informa- tion obtained at Ree villages, 1804. In the list of tribes that live on the plains to the west of the Rees one is given Cat-tar-kah, interpreted as Paducar. This information was presumably had through a French interpreter, for the other tribal names in the list are translated into English. This would seem to show that the French on the Upper Missouri considered the Cataka to be Padouca.
Volume vi contains a table of tribes made up at the Mandan villages in the winter of 1804-5, an d so probably came from Man- dan, Hidatsa, and French information.
P. 90: Cataka a tribe that occasionally come to the Mandan villages to trade as do also the Cheyennes, Kiowas, Arapahoes, Staetans, and Crows.
P. 101 : Cat a kah, their own name; Ha ka?, given thus with a question as French name for these people ; 300 people ; traders do not visit them; they at times visit the Ree villages. This Cataka tribe roves with the Do tame, and Nemousin, from the head of the Loup Fork north to the heads of the southern branches of the Yellowstone. "One of these tribes is known to speak the Padoucan language."
P. 102: Dotame do-ta-ma, their own name; no French name given. They speak the Padouces language; 120 people; no traders visit them; they never come to the villages on the Missouri; raised many horses.
P. 1 02 : Nemousin, the other band said to rove with the Cataka- ni-mi-ou-sin, own name; no French nickname; 200 people; never
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