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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.


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


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

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

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

The Caddo had a taste for monumental architecture: public plazas, ceremonial platforms, mausoleums.

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

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 W. H. Jackson

Page 101: The last sentence in the paragraph about the Caddos does not have an ending in the original book.

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

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 James Athearn Jones

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 Edward C. Taylor

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