Caddo

NOUN
  1. 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
  2. a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo
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How To Use Caddo In A Sentence

  • Both names are unobjectionable, but as the term Caddo has priority by a few pages preference is given to it. Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891
  • Grabbing up my quiver and Caddo bow, I carefully followed in his footsteps as we picked our way across his camp and then down the trail that led to the creek. Fire The Sky
  • The Confederate flag is also emblematic of the racial discrimination in jury selection within Caddo’s courthouse doors. Anna Arceneaux: Louisiana Supreme Court Sees Problems With the Confederate Flag, but Allows It to Wave for Now
  • In 1951, in response to the burgeoning civil rights movement, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, defiantly raised a Confederate flag outside the entrance to its courthouse. Anna Arceneaux: Louisiana Supreme Court Sees Problems With the Confederate Flag, but Allows It to Wave for Now
  • In Oklahoma, which recorded a gust of 82 mph and 11 inches of rain, some 300 homes and businesses were damaged in the Kingfisher area and in Caddo County in southwestern Oklahoma, officials said.
  • Essays cover the Timucua, Guale, Apalachee, Chickasaw, Caddo, Natchez, Quapaw, Cherokee, Upper Creek, Lower Creek, and Seminole Indians.
  • Among these latter Caddo groups, simple bowls and carinated bowls comprise between 57 and 70 percent of the vessels placed in the graves as burial offerings.
  • On their behalf, the ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that the flag’s presence at the courthouse risks tainting the capital punishment system with racial bias in two ways: First, the flag risks excluding potential African-American jurors, like Mr. Staples, who are unwilling to serve on Caddo Parish juries underneath a symbol of white supremacy. Anna Arceneaux: Louisiana Supreme Court Sees Problems With the Confederate Flag, but Allows It to Wave for Now
  • In 2009, long-time Caddo Parish resident Carl Staples, an African-American man, was summoned to jury service for a capital case. Anna Arceneaux: Louisiana Supreme Court Sees Problems With the Confederate Flag, but Allows It to Wave for Now
  • The same pattern pops up a number of times in harvestmen - Caddo agilis, Caddo pepperella and (if I recall correctly) Crosbycus dasycnemus are all individual species that each show this kind of distribution (mind you, they're also all mostly parthenogens, so morphological conservatism may be hiding genetic diversity). What do philomycid slugs and poison ivy have in common?
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