The Caddo were farmers and pot makers who lived in East Texas. There were two main groups of the Caddo in Texas. The Kadohadacho and the Tejas or Hasinais Caddo. The Kadohadacho lived in large villages along the Red river near the present day Oklahoma - Arkansas border. The Tejas lived around present day Nacogdoches. At the time of uninterrupted European contact with the Caddo culture in the late seventeenth century, Caddo peoples lived on the Red River and in East Texas. European populations-living in missions, ranches, and trading posts-increased throughout the eighteenth and into the early nineteenth century in the Red River valley and in the vicinity of Natchitoches and Nacogdoches, important fur trading centers. Epidemics between 1691 and 1816 greatly reduced Caddo populations. During the mid 1800s the remaining Caddo were forced off their lands by Anglo-Americans and moved to reservations, first in Texas and then in Oklahoma, where many still live and farm.

To learn more about the Caddo, A History of the Caddo Indians by: William B. Glover.

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