Caddo

Cad·do

C0012500 (kăd′ō)n. pl. Caddo or Cad·dos 1. A member of a Native American confederacy composed of numerous small tribes formerly inhabiting the Red River area of Louisiana, Arkansas, and eastern Texas and now located in central Oklahoma.2. The Caddoan language of the Caddo.

[French, from Caddo kaduhdā·čuʔ, a major tribe of the Caddo confederacy.]

Cad•do

(ˈkæd oʊ)

n., pl. -dos, (esp. collectively) -do. 1. a member of any of several American Indian peoples formerly located in Arkansas, Louisiana, and E Texas, and now living in Oklahoma. 2. the Caddoan language of the Caddo.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Caddo - a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and TexasBuffalo Indian, Plains Indian - a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North AmericaAricara, Arikara - a member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri riverEyeish - a member of the Caddo people of northeastern TexasKichai - a member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central TexasPawnee - a member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in OklahomaWichita - a member of the Caddo people formerly living between Kansas and central Texas
	2.	Caddo - a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the CaddoCaddoan, Caddoan languageAmerican-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian - any of the languages spoken by AmerindiansAricara, Arikara - the Caddoan language spoken by the ArikaraPawnee - the Caddoan language spoken by the PawneeWichita - the Caddoan language spoken by the Wichita

Caddo

(kăd`ō), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Caddoan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages,
languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). These people gave their name not only to the linguistic branch but also to the Caddo confederacy, a loose federation of tribes that in prehistoric times occupied lands from the Red River valley in Louisiana to the Brazos River valley in Texas and N into Arkansas and Kansas. Members, besides the Caddo, included the ArikaraArikara
, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Caddoan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). Archaeological evidence shows that they occupied the banks of the upper Missouri River since at least the 14th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. , the PawneePawnee
, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Caddoan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). At one time the Pawnee lived in what is now Texas, but by 1541, when Coronado visited Quivira, they seem to have been settled in the
..... Click the link for more information. , the WichitaWichita
, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Caddoan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They formerly occupied central Kansas and ranged into Oklahoma and Texas.
..... Click the link for more information. , and others. The culture of these loosely knit peoples was similar. Generally they were sedentary, living in villages of conical huts, although they did raise horses. The culture of the Caddo proper was marked by a clearly defined system of social stratification and by a religion that closely regulated daily life. Some now reside on tribal land in Oklahoma. In 1990 there were 3,000 Caddo in the United States.

Bibliography

See J. T. Hughes, Prehistory of the Caddoan-Speaking Tribes (1968).

Caddo

noun

Synonyms for Caddo

noun a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas

Related Words

Buffalo Indian
Plains Indian
Aricara
Arikara
Eyeish
Kichai
Pawnee
Wichita

noun a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo

Synonyms

Caddoan
Caddoan language

Related Words

American-Indian language
Amerind
Amerindian language
American Indian
Indian
Aricara
Arikara
Pawnee
Wichita