Caddo

American  

[kad-oh] / ˈkæd oʊ /

noun

• Caddos,
  plural
• Caddo
  plural

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

2. the Caddoan language of the Caddo.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Caddo
  plural
• Caddos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Caddo

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

Example Sentences

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Caddo Caddos

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

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

Thompson told KSLA-TV it’s now up to the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s office to decide whether to present charges to a grand jury.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2023

Asserting that De Soto’s visit caused the subsequent collapse of the Caddo and Coosa may be only the old logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

A large archaeology site was discovered about eight miles away, which is believed to have been occupied by Caddos around 1100 A.D.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 1, 2017

There was, in the land of the Caddos, a good and devout hunter and fisherman, named Sakechak, or "he that tricks the otter."

From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by Jones, James Athearn

A small tribe in the Indian Territory associated with the Caddos, Kiowas, and others on the Wichita agency.

From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.

The Comanches call the Wichitas "Painted Faces"; Caddos call them "Tattooed Faces," both tribes using the same sign.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

The Wichitas claim that they and the Caddos are one people.

From Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by Grinnell, George Bird