Some Wichita groups moved to Oklahoma and Texas, and they had extensive contact with Plains Indians during the 1700s. This led them to adopt many of their traits, such as raiding and trading. They also established close alliances with the French and the Comanche. The Wichita and Comanche people were collectively known as <em>Norteños</em>. This alliance began to break up in the 1770s, as the Wichita began to imrpove relationships with the Spanish.
The slave trade was very detrimental to village life in west and central africa for mainly reasons, but mainly because slave catcher could come in at any time and tear a family apart.