Caddo
Americannoun
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Caddos,
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Caddo
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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
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
Jurors deliberated about two hours before returning unanimous verdicts against Ureka Rochelle Black, 34, of Shreveport, the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 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
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
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
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 George Bird Grinnell
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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