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Caddo Nation Reading

The following are some interesting books written about the Caddo people.

  • Herbert Eugene Bolton: The Hasinais: Southern Caddoans As Seen by the Earliest Europeans
  • Jeff Bowen: Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Fort Sill Apache, Wichita, Caddo, and Delaware Indians Birth and Death Rolls, 1924-1932 (a great source for family history research)
  • Cecile Elkins Carter: Caddo Indians: Where We Come From (written by a tribal member)
  • George Amos Dorsey: Traditions of the Caddo (myths and folklore of the Caddo people)
  • David LaVere: The Caddo Chiefdoms: Caddo Economics and Politics, 1700-1835
  • Vynola Beaver Newkumet and Howard Meredith: Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo People (co-authored by a tribal member)
  • Timothy K. Perttula: The Caddo Nation: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Perspectives
  • F. Todd Smith: The Caddo Indians: Tribes at the Convergence of Empires
  • John R. Swanton: South Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians
  • Kent Westbrook: Legacy in Clay: Prehistoric Ceramic Art of Arkansas

On-line resources on the Caddo

  • A History of the Caddo Indians: This is an old article published in the Louisiana Historical Quarterly in 1935 and was originally William Glover's Master's thesis at the University of Texas 1932).
  • Notes on the Caddo by Elsie Clews Parsons: This was originally a memoir of the American Anthropological Association. Parsons interviewed several tribal members extensively, including Michael Martin, an artist also known as Silver Moon.

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