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Explanation:
The Caddo were primarily villagers and
farmers, and their culture had a class
system as part of their social
structure. They lived in grass houses
around fifteen feet tall and twenty to
fifty feet in diameter, framed with
poles in a domed or conical shape and
covered with grass thatch. Their
territory included communities of
isolated farms, small villages and
some larger villages.
The Caddo people developed a
successful agricultural economy based
on growing maize, beans,
watermelons, pumpkins, figs, tobacco,
and squash. By about A.D. 1300 most
Caddoan groups were consuming
large amounts of maize, and this plant
was clearly the most important food
source for them time. They also
supplemented their diet by hunting,
and deer was their most important
game animal. The Caddoes were also
excellent fishermen, using trotlines, a
fishing line loaded with baited hooks
across streams. Being close to the
plains they acquired horses sometime
in the 17th century.
Interestingly, Caddos’ traced their
descent through the maternal line
rather than the paternal. The xinesi
inherited a position of spiritual
leadership, the caddi, the inherited
position of principal headman of a
community. The xinesi were
responsible for communication with
the supreme god and meditation.
While caddi ayo were responsible for
religious leadership and decisionmaking influence between villages
and leading important rites, such as
harvest and naming rights. The
Caddoes ruled with a well organized
government system.
The Caddo had early contact with
Spanish Conquistadores under
Hernando de Soto in 1541. The
Caddo people traded fur, guns,
horses, and other items to
Europeans and other Indians, and
developed new trade and economic
networks. The economic trade
between the Caddo groups and
Europeans sped up the process of
the Caddo people adopting the
cultural traits and social patterns of
the Europeans.
By the early 1840s, all Caddo groups
had moved to the Brazos River area
to escape colonization efforts. They
remained there until they were
placed on the Brazos Indian
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