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Caddo Indians
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This narrative history of the Caddo Indians creates a vivid picture of daily life in the Caddo Nation. Using archaeological data, oral histories, and descriptions by explorers and settlers, Cecile Carter introduces impressive Caddo leaders past and present. The book provides observations, stories, and vignettes on twentieth-century Caddos and invites the reader to recognize the strengths, rooted in ancient culture, that have enabled the Caddos to survive epidemics, enemy attacks, and displacement from their original homelands in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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The Caddo Indians established it as a distinct ceremonial site sometime between 1250 and 1450 A.D. Their large mortuary mounds formed a triangular plaza; the eastern mound is still intact. Mound Street. Named for the pre-historic Caddo Indians burial mounds which existed on both sides of the street as late as the 1930s. Today, only one of the mortuary mound remains (at 516 North Mound). Archeological work in this mound was begun in 1985 and artifacts from this and other mounds can be viewed at the Stone Fort Museum.
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The early Caddo indians were mound builders. They made beautiful pottery. The Caddo indians were from 700 A.D.to 1300 A.D. The late Caddo lived in dome shaped huts. They weaved mats and rugs. The late Caddo no longer made mounds like their ancestors. The late Caddo were from 1500 AD to 1600 AD.
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The Caddo Indians were ... proficient hunters of wild animals including deer, which furnished them with much of their meat and with most of their black buckskin clothes. They raised turkeys but also killed them in the wild.
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Caddo Indian men wore breechcloths, sometimes with leather leggings to protect their legs. Caddo women wore wraparound skirts and poncho tops made of woven fiber and deerskin. Both genders wore earrings and moccasins. Caddo men did not usually wear shirts, but in cold weather, both men and women wore buffalo robes. In colonial times, the Caddos adapted European costume such as cloth jackets and calico dresses. Here is a webpage with pictures of Caddo ribbon shirts, and here are some photographs and links about Indian clothes in general.
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In the Indian Territory, the Caddo were placed on the Wichita reservation. They left the Wichita reservation during the civil war from 1861 to 1867. In 1867 they returned to the Wichita reservation and in 1874 they were given their own Caddo reservation.
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