Francisco Vásquez Coronado’s expedition, searching for the fabled riches of Gran Quivira, has journeyed east from the Rio Grande Valley in 1541 in search of a rich land called Quivira.

In Texas, probably in the Blanco River Canyon near Lubbock, Coronado meets people he calls Teyas who might have been related to the Wichita and the earlier Plains villagers.

The Teyas, if in fact they are Wichita, are probably the ancestors of the Iscani and Waco, although they might also have been the Kichai, who speak a different language but will later join the Wichita tribe.