Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 080613318X, Paperback)
This narrative history of the Caddo Indians creates a vivid picture of daily life in the Caddo Nation. Using archaeological data, oral histories, and descriptions by explorers and settlers, Cecile Carter introduces impressive Caddo leaders past and present. The book provides observations, stories, and vignettes on twentieth-century Caddos and invites the reader to recognize the strengths, rooted in ancient culture, that have enabled the Caddos to survive epidemics, enemy attacks, and displacement from their original homelands in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
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The end (disputes with Texan settlers and removal to Oklahoma) is difficult to read. Part of Carter's story is the power that the Caddo had in the Red River region, and the end of the book tells the loss of that power through population decline, land loss and territorial invasion, culminating in removal. (