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n. - A family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.

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  • The Caddoan tribes were mostly agricultural and sedentary, and to-day they are distinguished by their industry and intelligence.
  • Between Soto's and La Salle's visits, Perttula believes, the Caddoan population fell from about 200,000 to about 8,500 — a drop of nearly 96 percent.
  • The Coosa city-states, in western Georgia, and the Caddoan-speaking civilization, centered on the Texas-Arkansas border, disintegrated soon after Soto appeared.
  • A thousand years later, Caddoan potters in Oklahoma produced jars with abstract markings in the glaze known as "fire clouds," the result of exposure to irregular firing.
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