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
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Caddo
From the Caddo word kaduhdá·čuʔ the name of a band
Example Sentences
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The Caddo Parish district attorney in Louisiana ultimately dropped those charges in 2020 after a second grand jury declined to bring an indictment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 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
But they both won the same 10 parishes: Caddo in northwest Louisiana; East Carroll, Madison and Tensas on the northeastern border; and six parishes near Baton Rouge and New Orleans in southeast Louisiana.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023
Two other deaths - a 62-year-old woman and a 49-year-old man - were also as a result of the heat in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, according to CBS, the BBC's US partner.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2023
After De Soto’s army left the Caddo stopped erecting community centers and began digging community cemeteries.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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