The Caddo Tribe

The Caddo Tribe

• Food
• Region of Texas
• Tools and Weapons
• Interactions
• Conflicts
• Medicine and Health
• Clothing
• Religion

The Caddo tribe

• Housing
• Government
• Art
• Economics
• Communication
• Traditions

Food

• We were farmers
• We ate corn that was sometimes pounded, beans,berries, squash, pumpkin, and bear meat.
• They also gathered nuts and fruit.
• We were very argicultural

Region of Texas

• We lived in East Texas
• In east Texas it is usualy humid.
• The Piney Woods region was in east Texas and was were most of us lived.

Tools and Weapons

• We usually used axes, war clubs, maces, knives,pikes, and bow and arrows made out of bois darc wood.

Interactions

• The first human expedition to find a Caddo village and Caddo humans was the Hernando de Soto Expidition.
• The expedition had a violent clash with a band of Caddo.

Conflicts

• We were known to be friendly but, were enemies with Sioux and Osage tribes

Medicine

• We beileived that doing the ghost dance healed them.
• We got sick from bad corn.

Clothing

• Our men wore breech cloths made of bark fabric or deer skin.
• Our Women wore skirts made of bark fabric or deer skin.
• all of our clothes were very colorfull

Religion

• We were Christian and went to Caddo churches.
• We do the Ghost dance.

Housing

• We lived in dome shaped huts made of grass and branches.
• In the middle of these huts there were usually fires.

Government

• In east Texas there were two main groups of Caddo.
• The two groups were the Kadohadacho and the Hasani Caddo.

Kadohadacho

• The Kadohadacho lived in large villages along the Red river
• They had a main village for the paramount cheif

Hasani

• The Hasani were made of several tribes that were organized into a Confederacy.
• They called the confederacy Tejas
• The word Tejas is Caddoan it means ones who are friends
• They lived around present day Nacogdoches. Modern Nacogdoches was built on a large Hasani village.

Art

• We made beautiful pottery that were very smooth.
• We also weaved very beautiful baskets.

Economics

• The first french and Spanish explorers found our economy thriving.
• We traded a lot of Bois dark wood and salt.
• of Bois dark wood and salt.
• We were farmers so they also traded fruits and vegetable.

Communication

• We spoke several dialects of Caddo.
• We had Different bands that had different dialects.But, every speaker in the Caddo could still understand each of them.

Traditions

• We did the duck dance, the alligator dance, the bear dance, and the ghost dance.

Conclusion

• We were the Caddo tribe and had different traditions, Economies, and others from other tribes and that is the Caddo tribe.

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