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  Caddo Constitution and Bylaws
Caddo Tribal Active Membership shall be the governing body of the tribe, composed of all enrolled members at least eighteen (18) years of age or over, who have registered to vote.
All persons of the Caddo Indian blood who received an allotment of land as members of the Caddo Indian Tribe shall be hereby declared full blood (4/4) members of the tribe for the purpose of computing eligibility of their descendants for membership.
Caddo tribal enrollment procedures, after the passage of the amendment, shall recognize and count all amounts of American Indian blood as pertinent to prospective tribal enrollees and to their descendants, except those persons otherwise entitled to enrollment under this constitutional amendment who elect to be enrolled in another tribe.
www.ntjrc.org /ccfolder/caddoconst.htm   (4154 words)

  
 The Caddo Indians, Texas Indians
Tejas is the Spanish spelling of the Caddo word and it is pronounced Te-haas.
A long time ago the Caddos, the Pawnee and the Wichita were all in the same tribe.
The bois de arc is an important tree to the Caddo.
www.texasindians.com /caddo.htm   (1688 words)

  
  Caddo Constitution and Bylaws
Caddo Tribal Active Membership shall be the governing body of the tribe, composed of all enrolled members at least eighteen (18) years of age or over, who have registered to vote.
All persons of the Caddo Indian blood who received an allotment of land as members of the Caddo Indian Tribe shall be hereby declared full blood (4/4) members of the tribe for the purpose of computing eligibility of their descendants for membership.
Caddo tribal enrollment procedures, after the passage of the amendment, shall recognize and count all amounts of American Indian blood as pertinent to prospective tribal enrollees and to their descendants, except those persons otherwise entitled to enrollment under this constitutional amendment who elect to be enrolled in another tribe.
www.thecaddo.com /Caddocons.htm   (4167 words)

  
 HISTORY OF CADDO INDIANS
If a Caddo is killed in battle, the body is never buried, but left to be devoured by beasts or birds of prey, and the condition of such individuals in the other world is considered to be far better than that of persons dying a natural death.
Another factor that influenced the Caddoes to sell their lands, was the government policy of settling in the territory claimed by the small bands of Indians driven from other sections by the west ward expansion of the whites.
He talked with the Caddo chief relative to the proposition and found that he voiced no objections to their settling on his lands, as it was the wish of the government.
ops.tamu.edu /x075bb/caddo/Indians.html   (19587 words)

  
 Caddo Lake Institute Information
The Caddo Lake wetland ecosystem is a large, shallow, wetland complex located at the bottom of the Cypress Creek watershed of Texas and Louisiana, in the south central region of the United States, approximately 180km east of Dallas, Texas.
In 1993 Caddo Lake was designated as a "wetland of international importance", under the so-called Ramsar Convention, through the collaborative efforts of the state of Texas, the U.S. Department of Interior and the Caddo Lake Institute.
The Caddo Lake Clearinghouse for Community-based Coordination of Caddo Lake's Ramsar wetlands.
www.clidata.org /cliinfo.htm   (581 words)

  
 Welcome to CADDO MAGNET High School Men's Soccer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Caddo Magnet defeats Huntington 9 to 0 to finish the district run at 12-0 with 9 by shutout.
Caddo Magnet traveled to Natchitoches for a district match and came away with a 6 to 1 victory.
Caddo Magnet men’s soccer made a giant leap onto the state scene as it knocked out two Top 10 teams en route to...
eteamz.active.com /magnet/index.cfm   (382 words)

  
 Native American Society
Caddo villages consisted of cone-shaped earth lodges placed in a circle around a common area used for ceremony and celebration.
An agricultural tribe, the sun was a main deity of the Caddo and many ceremonies were held to honor sowing and harvesting crops.
As was so often the case, with the whites came disease unknown to the Caddo, and epidemics of small pox and measles soon wiped out many.
thewildwest.org /interface/index.php?action=194   (342 words)

  
 Caddo - Professional Test & Measuring Instruments
The New Caddo 4061/62 are high performance 2 MHz Function-Pulse Generators with a 30 MHz Frequency Counter....
MSA338 is an hand-held spectrum analyzer providing performance and functions that are comparable to large-size bench type in a compact, lightweight and inexpensive model....
Caddo is a Registered Trademark of Scientech Technologies Pvt.
www.caddo.bz   (64 words)

  
 Caddo
The Caddo Indian Nation was a very influential group of Indian tribes in the mid western United States.
The Caddo was developed soon after 500 A.D. and mainly built around waterways such as the Red River.
The Caddo thrived on myths and stories that had been passed down for thousands of years from father to son, mother to daughter.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/northamerica/caddo.html   (790 words)

  
 Caddo
In the fertile soils of this area, the Caddo raised crops of corn, beans and squash.
Groups of Caddo constructed permanent villages of earth lodges built around an open area that was used for games, dancing, and ceremonies.
After first being forced to move to Texas, ancestors of today’s Caddo were again forced to move on to reservations in the Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
www.scsc.k12.ar.us /2002Outwest/NaturalHistory/Projects/LachowskyR/Caddo.htm   (230 words)

  
 Caddo-LBJ National Grasslands
The Caddo and Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) National Grasslands are located in two areas northeast and northwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
The recreation areas on the Caddo and LBJ offer a variety of facilities for camping, picnicking, and other outdoor activities.
Hunters should be extremely careful as all areas of the Grasslands are used heavily during hunting season by hunters and the non-hunting public alike.
www.fs.fed.us /r8/texas/recreation/caddo_lbj/caddo-lbj_gen_info.shtml   (989 words)

  
 The Caddo Indians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Caddo world was populated by many supernatural beings who had varying degrees of importance and power, with a supreme being, Ayo-Caddi-Aymay, having authority over the others.
In this way the Caddo recognized the relationships among different members of their own confederacy, and they were able also to incorporate Europeans within their hierarchically organized society.
The Caddo were important trading partners and allies of both France and Spain during the colonial era.
www.uark.edu /depts/contact/caddo.html   (954 words)

  
 Texas Caddo Indians
The Caddo were a part of a larger religious culture that is found all across the south and Midwest.
So the Caddo were practicing a religion that was shared by many other tribes such as the Creek, the Chickasaw, the Muscogeans, Think of a familiar model.
The older Caddo know that their Caddo culture is the most valuable thing they can pass on to the younger people.
www.texasindians.com /caddo2.htm   (2831 words)

  
 Caddo Lake Visitors Guide
Caddo Lake is a different type of lake than most of the Texas Lakes to the west.
The "Caddo Critter" is said to have inhabited the scenic Caddo Lake area in the 1970's.
The Caddo Lake State Park and WMA consists of 8,129 acres in Harrison and Marion counties in Texas.
www.caddo-lake.net   (907 words)

  
 Caddo Lake Home Page
A Caddo Indian Chief was warned by the Great Spirit to move his village from the low lands.
If you are interested in knowing about the plants and animals found in the Caddo Lake area, look up the checklists put out by the Museum of Life Sciences of Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
Caddo has been used as a backdrop for several Movies.
nac.tamu.edu /x075bb/caddo/caddo.html   (482 words)

  
 Caddo Lake
The upper 1/3 of the lake is a 10,000 acre pristine cypress swamp crisscrossed by a maze of boat roads.
The Caddo Indians that gave us our Texas name, "tejas" or friend, made Caddo their home until 1836 when they were displaced by aggressive settlers.
Port Caddo, located on Big Cypress Bayou which is one of the major waterways feeding Caddo Lake, was a major Port of entry into the Texas Territory and played a significant role in the development of the West.
www.texs.com /caddo   (592 words)

  
 Caddo Parish History Site
One of the sixty-four parishes of Louisiana, Caddo Parish was formed in 1838.
Several sections of land east of the river, which appear to be in Bossier Parish, actually belong to Caddo Parish, and the opposite is true for Bossier Parish.
Caddo, Bossier, and DeSoto Parishes found the situation intolerable and attempted to break away from Louisiana to join Texas.
www.caddohistory.com   (679 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
The Caddos are particularly well known for the beautiful artistic and functional ceramic wares they made of many forms and functions, and the ceramics are considered some of the finest aboriginal pottery manufactured in North America.
By 1874 the boundaries of the Caddo reservation were defined, and the separate Caddo tribes agreed to unite as the unified Caddo Indian Tribe.
Under the terms of the General Allotment Act of 1887, the Caddo reservation was partitioned in 1902 a 160-acre allotment for each enrolled Caddo, and the remaining lands were opened for white settlement.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/bmcaj.html   (1612 words)

  
 Museum of the Red River–The Caddo
The Caddo were a loose confederation of Indian groups who shared a common language.
A large variety of plant and animal resources were available, and the many rivers in the region provided easy access to the various sections of their homelands.
After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the Caddo became victims of the politics of the United States, the interests of Spanish Mexico, and the independence movements in Texas.
www.museumoftheredriver.org /caddo.html   (359 words)

  
 Caddo Defense .Org MAIN
Caddo Defense Organization was established in August 2001 by four local lake entities (known at the Caddo Lake Coalition) as a community-based wetland conservation and management group.
CLI was instrumental in Caddo Lake's Ramsar designation, and a co-author of official Ramsar Guidance to maximize participation of local and indigenous communities in management of their Ramsar wetlands.
is the present institutional framework established by the Caddo Lake Ramsar Treaty between the CLC entities in March 2002.
www.caddodefense.org /index2.htm   (373 words)

  
 Caddo Lake Cabins
Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in Texas, and Big Cypress Bayou and the sloughs and channels that make up Caddo Lake cover over 30,000 acres in both Texas and Louisiana.
Hauntingly beautiful, quiet and unspoiled, Caddo Lake is rich in its diversity of plants and wildlife.
Caddo on your own, boat rentals are available, or you may use our canoe.
www.caddolakecabins.com   (198 words)

  
 Caddo - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Caddo, Native American tribes and confederacies of tribes of the Caddoan family, occupying an area stretching from the Red River Valley in Louisiana...
It is the seat of Caddo Parish and part of the city is in Bossier Parish.
Caddo : see also Native Americans of North America
encarta.msn.com /Caddo.html   (134 words)

  
 The Official Website of The Caddo Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Caddo Nation General Election Board has determined the following is a list of eligible candidates according to the guidelines set forth in the Election Board Ordinance.
Caddo social dances the rest of the night.
Please note: While some present and/or former members of the tribal council and individual tribal members may maintain their own personal websites with information regarding the Caddo Nation's tribal government, the Caddo Nation's recognized governmental website is your official source for information regarding the tribe.
www.caddonation-nsn.gov /Main.htm   (155 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Caddo Indians
The Caddo were a semi-sedentary and agricultural people, living in large, conical, communal, grass-thatched houses, and cultivating abundant crops of corn, beans, and pumpkins.
All but one of these (The Sun) were named from animals, and no Caddo would dare to kill the animal from which his clan derived its name.
French hostility accomplished the abandonment and destruction of the missions the next year, but in 1721 five of them were re-established, with a strong Spanish post on their eastern frontier to keep out the French.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03129a.htm   (1015 words)

  
 Caddo, Oklahoma OK, town profile (Bryan County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Caddo is a town in Bryan County, in the Durant metro area.
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Caddo was $12,890, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Median rent in Caddo, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $265.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=15629   (475 words)

  
 TPWD: Caddo Lake State Park
Thick bald cypress and a tangle of aquatic plants thrive in the waters at Caddo Lake State Park.
There are canoe rentals in the park, Jon boat with motor rentals (outside the park about 6 miles away), and pontoon boat tours daily except Wednesday.
Caddo Indian legend attributes the formation of the lake to a giant flood.
www.tpwd.state.tx.us /spdest/findadest/parks/caddo_lake   (623 words)

  
 Assessor - Caddo Parish, Louisiana
The Assessor is responsible to the citizens of Caddo Parish to ensure all property is assessed in a fair and equitable manner to the property owners.
At the same time the Assessor is responsible that the assessments are done according the Constitution of the State of Louisiana and the Revised Statutes that are passed by the Legislature.
The Caddo Parish Tax Collector, which is the Caddo Parish Sheriff, is responsible for sending tax bills and collecting taxes based on the assessments and the millage rates.
www.caddoassessor.org   (361 words)

  
 Tejas Main
In less than two centuries, the mighty Caddo were reduced to a few hundred refugees who were assigned tiny parcels of land in the Oklahoma Indian Territories, almost 200 miles west of their homeland.
Caddo Fundamentals: Introduces the Caddo and their world: who they are, who they were, their homeland, and how we learn about the Caddo past.
Sha'chahdínnih: exhibit on the Timber Hill archeological site, believed to be the remains of the last Caddo Indian village in the original Caddo Homeland, occupied from 1800 to 1840.
www.texasbeyondhistory.net /tejas/index.html   (1231 words)

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