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Caddo people primarily settled near the Caddo River. When they first encountered Europeans and Africans, the Caddo tribes organized themselves in three confederacies: the Natchitoches, Hasinai, and Kadohadacho. They were loosely affiliated with other neighboring tribes including the Yowani Choctaw.
RECEIVE CADDO NATION NEWSPAPER! Thank you to Lakota Beatty for a wonderful job representing the Caddo Nation in the first of several tv spots that the Nation will be producing and running in the future to reintroduce ourselves in local community and the state, to expand our reach to tribal members, to showcase culture and advertise our businesses.
Caddo, one tribe within a confederacy of North American Indian tribes comprising the Caddoan linguistic family. Their name derives from a French truncation of kadohadacho, meaning “real chief” in Caddo.
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A group of Caddo settled among the Choctaw and Chickasaw in south-central Indian Territory near present-day Paul’s Valley, OK. The small town of Whitebead, OK was named for this group of Caddo, who are sometimes referred to as the “Whitebead group” among Caddo people today.
The Caddo Tribe was a Southeast Indian Tribe that inhabited parts of East Texas, Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and Oklahoma. The tribe is able to date themselves back to one of the earliest Native American cultures in North America, which is known as the Caddoan Mississippian culture.
The Caddo people differ from most other American Indian groups that lived in Texas because of their territorial stability. Settlement and use of lands had great permanence: the Caddo lived and sustained themselves in the same broad forested and well-watered landscape for over 1,000 years.
Caddo communities—called villages or towns in the de Soto chronicles and often referred to as tribes or bands by later writers—were actually related farmsteads secluded and separated by gardens and woodland.
Caddo groups lived in parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, with the Red River Valley at the center of their territory. Present-day Caddo people live in Oklahoma (near Fort Cobb and Fort El Reno) and in other southwest central states.
In 1938, under the provisions of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936, the Kadohadacho, the Hasinai, the Hainai, and others constituted themselves with the establishment of the government known as the Caddo Indian Tribe of Oklahoma.