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6 unusual facts about Caddo


Blue County, Choctaw Nation

Its county seat was Caddo, Indian Territory—the present-day Caddo, Oklahoma.

Caddidae

Caddo Banks, 1892 (eastern North America, Japan)

Chief Caddo

The two schools settled on a wooden statue (both schools are located in heavily forested areas) of a legendary Indian chief whose tribe (the Caddo) was responsible for settling the locations that became the cities in which university was located (both of which are named for branches of the tribe).

Domingo Terán de los Ríos

His role as governor was to set up seven missions among the Tejas Indians; to seek and remove any foreigners that may have settled in Spanish territory; and to catalog the land, the natural resources, and the peoples of the area.

Louis Weller

Weller, a full-blooded Caddo Indian, was the first three-time captain of the Haskell football team, where he scored thirteen touchdowns of 60 yards or more.

Sagamite

Sagamité was used in ceremonies to celebrate welcomed guests by tribes such as the Peoria, Huron, Osage, and early Caddo tribes of Arkansas.


Apache, Oklahoma

Electric service is provided by American Electric Power Public Service Company of Oklahoma or Caddo Electric.

Beavers Bend Resort Park

The Center is also home to 14 dioramas (painted by Harry Rossoll of Atlanta, Georgia, the artist who created Smokey Bear) that cover prehistoric forests, Caddo Indians, Papermaking in the South, 1940s lumbering, and forest appreciation.

Billy Montgomery

In the primary, Shaw and Montgomery had also faced two other Republicans, oilman Jay Murrell, a former Caddo Parish commissioner, Republican activist, and itinerant radio talk show host, and the businessman Barrow Peacock.

Caddo Lake

Since 1965 Texas' Caddo Lake has had hundreds of alleged Bigfoot 'sightings' according to the Texas Bigfoot Research Center (TBRC) as told on the Travel Channel 2006 documentary Bigfoot.

Canadian River

A more recent explanation comes from William Bright, who wrote that the name is "probably derived from Río Canadiano", a Spanish spelling of the Caddo word káyántinu, which was the Caddos' name for the nearby Red River.

HLA-DQ8

Most of American cultivars were domesticated south of the Rio Grande (exceptions are Caddo rice and Texas varigated squash, etc.).

Ledger art

Dolores Purdy Corcoran (Caddo/Winnebago) is a female ledger artist who uses bright colors and female figures frequently in her work.

Villosa arkansasensis

It is restricted to the headwaters of the Ouachita River and the Saline River drainage systems including the Caddo River and Little Missouri River.


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