The Caddo Tribe of Texas

What Region in Texas were the Caddo Tribe in?

HOUSING
The Caddo Indians lived in dome houses made of grass, they could fit 12-13 people per house every person in the village helped to make them even the children! Each village had a temple and a sports field.

What did the Caddo tribe eat?

• Corn
• Pumpkins
• Beans
• Squash
• Berries
• Deer/bear meat
• Hung dry food up on string for the winter

Medicine

• Tabaco: for ceremony’s
• Sage: for your stomach, colon, kidneys, liver, lungs, skin
• Rosemary: medicinal remedies
• Osha: used for aches and pains and highly valued by the Caddo tribe
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To cure a sick patient they normally make a large fire under their bed and shake a maraca like gourd while chanting hyms.

Traditions

• When a great leader/chief dies we burn down their house
• Men hunt to feed their families
• Make pottery

Art

• Pipes made out of clay and look like a lion
• Feather fans
• Musical insturments

Clothing

• Men: cloth with rope tied around with mo-hock hair cuts
• Woman: Wore dresses with beaded belts earrings (shell)

Tools & Weapons

• Arrow points are fastened to the tips of cane wood shafts to make arrows
• Stone knifes were used for butchering deer and other animals
• Axes are used to chop down trees and chop wood

Interactions

• The Caddos interacted with all of the other tribes of the southern plains
• The Osage, Comanche, Kiowa, and Quapaw.
• The caddo were friendly with these tribes, trading goods and intermarrying
• Other times they fought each other

They Traded...

• shells
• axes
• Feather fans
• and other rare objects

The Caddo spoke the language of Caddoan

Fun Fact
Children try to capture a hunter, dressed in deer skin, to prepare for when they will hunt with the tribe.

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