Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
- noun The Caddoan language of the Caddo.
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member of one of the Caddo tribes. - proper noun A
confederacy of severalsoutheastern Native American tribes , whoinhabited much of what is now EastTexas , westernLouisiana and portions of southernArkansas andOklahoma in the sixteenth century. - proper noun A
Caddoan language of the Southern Plains of the United States, spoken by the Caddo Nation ofOklahoma .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
- noun a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Both names are unobjectionable, but as the term Caddo has priority by a few pages preference is given to it.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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The Caddo were a semi-sedentary and agricultural people, living in large, conical, communal, grass-thatched houses, and cultivating abundant crops of corn, beans, and pumpkins.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The Confederate flag is also emblematic of the racial discrimination in jury selection within Caddo’s courthouse doors.
Anna Arceneaux: Louisiana Supreme Court Sees Problems With the Confederate Flag, but Allows It to Wave for Now Anna Arceneaux 2011
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In 2009, long-time Caddo Parish resident Carl Staples, an African-American man, was summoned to jury service for a capital case.
Anna Arceneaux: Louisiana Supreme Court Sees Problems With the Confederate Flag, but Allows It to Wave for Now Anna Arceneaux 2011
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In 2009, long-time Caddo Parish resident Carl Staples, an African-American man, was summoned to jury service for a capital case.
Anna Arceneaux: Louisiana Supreme Court Sees Problems With the Confederate Flag, but Allows It to Wave for Now Anna Arceneaux 2011
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On their behalf, the ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that the flag’s presence at the courthouse risks tainting the capital punishment system with racial bias in two ways: First, the flag risks excluding potential African-American jurors, like Mr. Staples, who are unwilling to serve on Caddo Parish juries underneath a symbol of white supremacy.
Anna Arceneaux: Louisiana Supreme Court Sees Problems With the Confederate Flag, but Allows It to Wave for Now Anna Arceneaux 2011
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Grabbing up my quiver and Caddo bow, I carefully followed in his footsteps as we picked our way across his camp and then down the trail that led to the creek.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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The Confederate flag is also emblematic of the racial discrimination in jury selection within Caddo’s courthouse doors.
Anna Arceneaux: Louisiana Supreme Court Sees Problems With the Confederate Flag, but Allows It to Wave for Now Anna Arceneaux 2011
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Grabbing up my quiver and Caddo bow, I carefully followed in his footsteps as we picked our way across his camp and then down the trail that led to the creek.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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In 1951, in response to the burgeoning civil rights movement, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, defiantly raised a Confederate flag outside the entrance to its courthouse.
Anna Arceneaux: Louisiana Supreme Court Sees Problems With the Confederate Flag, but Allows It to Wave for Now Anna Arceneaux 2011
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