Caddo

Other forms: Caddos

Definitions of Caddo

1. 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
   types:

   Aricara, Arikara

   a member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river

   Eyeish

   a member of the Caddo people of northeastern Texas

   Kichai

   a member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas

   Pawnee

   a member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma

   Wichita

   a member of the Caddo people formerly living between Kansas and central Texas

   type of:

   Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian

   a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America
2. noun

   a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo
   synonyms: Caddoan, Caddoan language

   types:

   Aricara, Arikara

   the Caddoan language spoken by the Arikara

   Pawnee

   the Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee

   Wichita

   the Caddoan language spoken by the Wichita

   type of:

   American Indian, American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language

   a dated term referring to any of the languages spoken by Indigenous people in the Americas