INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -By 800 years ago (A.D. 1200), the Caddo were big-time corn farmers who also grew squash/pumpkins, beans, sunflowers, and various other crops. Corn had to be planted seed by seed in individual holes and required greater effort to clear the land, keep it weeded, and fend off animals and birds.

Detailed explanation-2: -Caddo farmers grew corn, pumpkins, beans, and squash along with the sunflowers. They could eat these vegetables fresh or dry them to store for the winter. Pumpkins and squash were cut into long strips and woven into a mat!

Detailed explanation-3: -The Caddos raised corn, beans, squash and other crops. They also hunted the bear and deer of East Texas and headed west for annual buffalo hunts. The Hasinai were the largest confederation of Caddos in Deep East Texas.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Caddo originated in the lower Mississippi Valley and spread west along the river systems. Sometime between 700 and 800 they settled the area between the Arkansas River and the middle reaches of the Red, Sabine, Angelina, and Neches rivers and adopted agriculture.

Detailed explanation-5: -Caddo, one tribe within a confederacy of North American Indian tribes comprising the Caddoan linguistic family. Their name derives from a French truncation of kadohadacho, meaning “real chief” in Caddo. The Caddo proper originally occupied the lower Red River area in what are now Louisiana and Arkansas.