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.
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Etymology
Origin of Caddo
From the Caddo word kaduhdá·čuʔ the name of a band
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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
Ruling this week, specially appointed Judge E. Joseph Bleich ordered a new election for sheriff in Caddo Parish, one of Louisiana’s most populous parishes, in the northwest corner of the state.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 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
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
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
He easily recognized in the band several Blackfeet, six or seven Crows, some Sioux, who had come far north, and to his astonishment a few Southern Indians, such as Caddos, Cheyennes, and Comanches.
From Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur by Taylor, Edward C.
Is now chief of the Caddos, and considered in advance of most of his people.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.
The earth was re-peopled from the loins of Sakechak; from him, from one family of Caddos, are all men descended.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by Jones, James Athearn
The Comanches call the Wichitas "Painted Faces"; Caddos call them "Tattooed Faces," both tribes using the same sign.
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