Editing Wichita, Kansas (section)

===Early history===
{{See also|History of Kansas#Prehistory|label 1=Early Kansas History}}
Archaeological evidence indicates human habitation near the confluence of the [[Arkansas River|Arkansas]] and [[Little Arkansas River]]s, the site of present-day Wichita, as early as 3000 BC.<ref>{{cite web | title = Grove Park Archaeological Site | publisher = Historic Preservation Alliance of Wichita and Sedgwick County | url = http://www.historicpreservationalliance.com/WichitaHPA/grove.html | access-date = March 21, 2015}}</ref> In 1541, a [[Habsburg Spain|Spanish]] expedition led by explorer [[Francisco Vázquez de Coronado]] found the area populated by the [[Wichita people|Quivira, or Wichita, people]]. Conflict with the [[Osage Nation|Osage]] in the 1750s drove the Wichita further south.<ref name=Brooks>{{cite encyclopedia | last = Brooks | first = Robert L. | title = Wichitas | encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | publisher = [[University of Nebraska–Lincoln]] | url = http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.na.127 | access-date = March 21, 2014}}</ref> Prior to [[European settlement of North America|European settlement]] of the region, the site was in the territory of the [[Kiowa people|Kiowa]].<ref>{{cite web | last = Sturtevant | first = William C.| title = Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks [Map] | publisher = [[Smithsonian Institution]] | date = 1967 | url = http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/united_states/early_indian_west.jpg | access-date = March 21, 2015}}</ref>