Caddo
Americannoun
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a member of any of several North American Indian tribes formerly located in Arkansas, Louisiana, and eastern Texas, and now living in Oklahoma.
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the Caddoan language of the Caddo.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Caddo
From the Caddo word kaduhdá·čuʔ the name of a band
Example Sentences
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They ranged in age from 3 to 11, according to the Caddo Parish coroner's office.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Louisiana's Department of Health confirmed on Sunday that the two men who died of hypothermia were in Caddo Parish, a region which contains the city of Shreveport.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026
Carewe’s scenarios often were written by older brother Finis Fox, who was born in 1881 in Caddo, another small town in the territory that would become Oklahoma.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024
Absentee ballots accounted for about 17% of the vote in the Caddo Parish race.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023
The societies of the Caddo, on the Texas-Arkansas border, and the Coosa, in western Georgia, both disintegrated soon after.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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