Caddo

[ kad-oh ]

noun,plural Cad·dos, (especially collectively) Cad·do for 1.

a member of any of several North American Indian tribes formerly located in Arkansas, Louisiana, and eastern Texas, and now living in Oklahoma.
the Caddoan language of the Caddo.

Origin of Caddo

From the Caddo word kaduhdá·čuʔ the name of a band

The Caddo tribes were cultivators of the soil as well as hunters, and practised the arts of pottery-making and tanning.
The Myths of the North American Indians | Lewis Spence
The Caddo and Comanche had epithets for this tribe, that signified "dog-eaters."
Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume 28 | Various
I hold, however, that some Caddo forms of speech must be indigenous.
Opuscula | Robert Gordon Latham
In the parish of Caddo during the month of October, 1868, over forty colored people were killed.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 | Various
Derivation: From the Caddo term ka-ede, signifying chief (Gatschet).
Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico | John Wesley Powell

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