The Caddoan tribes were mostly agricultural and sedentary, and to-day they are distinguished by their industry and intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [1491] Reference

The Coosa city-states, in western Georgia, and the Caddoan-speaking civilization, centered on the Texas-Arkansas border, disintegrated soon after Soto appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [1491] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museums: Native Wonders of Middle America] Reference

But somewhere along the way, Texans, known for malapropisms and creative spellings, (heck, the name of the state is even a refashioning of a Caddoan word, Tejas, which means friends) took out the extra "i" and decided to call it pimento.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pimento cheese, comfort served | Homesick Texan] Reference

Hokan, Macro-Siouan (including Caddoan and Iroquoian) and Gulf (which hypothetically includes Muskogean together with various other Southeastern languages) are listed as "stocks", in the sense of hypothetical related groups above the level of the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

The Caddoan group, dwelling formerly west of the Mississippi, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

The boundaries of the Caddoan family, as at present understood, can best be given under three primary groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

"The state's name derives from táysha, a word in the Caddoan language of the Hasinai, which means" allies "or" friends ".".    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference

The Pawnee group of the Caddoan family in western Nebraska and northwestern Kansas separated the Ponka and Dakota on the north from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Gatschet, A. S., work of 7, XXXIV linguistic literature 23, 24 comparison of Caddoan and A.aizan languages by 46 on Pacific Coast tribes 54.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

A recent comparison of this vocabulary by Mr. Gatschet, with several Caddoan dialects, has led to the discovery that a considerable percentage of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Their hunting ground extended westward and southwestward, chiefly north of the Platte and along the Elkhorn, to the territory of the Ponka and the Pawnee (Caddoan); and in 1766 Carver met their hunting parties on Minnesota river.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siouan Indians] Reference

(indeed the Mandan had a tradition to that effect); and reason has been given for supposing that the ancestors of the prairie hunters followed the straggling buffalo through the cis-Mississippi forests into his normal trans-Mississippi habitat and spread over his domain save as they were held in check by alien huntsmen, chiefly of the warlike Caddoan and Kiowan tribes; and the buffalo itself was a geologically recent — indeed essentially post-glacial — animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siouan Indians] Reference

Du Pratz, Le Page, cited on Caddoan habitat 61 on certain southern tribes 66 on the Na’htchi language 96.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Adaizan and Caddoan languages compared 46.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Caddoan and Adaizan languages compared 46.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Caddoan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Caddoan family 58.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Caddoan family 58-62.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

"paw-paw eaters," the name of a Caddoan tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 2] Reference

The indigenous words are Alaska (Aleut, meaning the object toward which the action of the sea is directed, i.e. coast); Arizona (obscure, possibly O’odham for small spring); Kentucky (Iroquoi, meaningprairie); Connecticut (Mohegan, meaning place of long tidal river); theDakotas, North and South (the name of the language spoken by the Santee-Sioux peoples); Hawaii (Hawai’ian, meaninghomeland); Illinois (from Algonquin via French, meaning he orshe speaks normally); Michigan (Ojibwe, meaninglarge water); Minnesota (Dakota, meaningsky-tinted water); Nebraska (Otoe or Omaha, meaningflat water); Ohio (Seneca, meaninglarge creek); Oklahoma (Choctaw, meaningland of the red people), andTexas (Caddoan language of the Hasinai, meaningfriends).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference