USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tejas is the Spanish spelling of a Caddo word taysha, which means “friend” or “ally". In the 17th century the Spanish knew the westernmost Caddo peoples as “the great kingdom of Tejas” and the name lived on to become the name of the 28th state of the United States-Texas.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -In fact, Texas as a Spanish province was named for the Hasinai people with the term for friends or allies-Ta’ sha.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Caddo were important trading partners and allies of both France and Spain during the colonial era. However, epidemic diseases; competition and occasional hostilities with the Osage, the Cherokee, and the Choctaw; and the westward spread of American settlement eventually encroached on their domain.