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Title: TRADITIONS OF THE CADDO
By: George A. Dorsey, Wallace L. Chafe
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0803266022
ISBN 13: 9780803266025
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Pub. date: 1 June, 1997
Series: Sources of American Indian Oral Literature
Pages: 132
Description: The Caddoan tribes are found along the Red River in present-day Louisiana and Arkansas. This book reflects the women's horticultural practices, village life distinguished by conical grass lodges, family and social relationships, connection to nature, and ceremonies with tales of earthly and unearthly forces like Snake-Woman; Coyote; and more.
Synopsis: Hernando de Soto encountered the Caddos in the sixteenth century, and survivors of Sieur de La Salle's last voyage in the late seventeenth century gave the first full description of them. By 1903, when George A. Dorsey was investigating their customs and beliefs, the Caddos, numbering 530, were living on a reservation in Oklahoma. The Caddoan tribes, found along the Red River and its tributaries in present-day Louisiana and Arkansas, practiced agriculture long before they hunted buffalo. The tales collected for this book, first published in 1905, reflect the women's horticultural practices (supplemented by the men's hunting), village life distinguished by conical grass lodges, family and social relationships, connection to nature, and ceremonies. The tales vibrate with earthly and unearthly forces: Snake-Woman, who distributes seeds; Coyote, who regulates life after death; the Effeminate Man, who brings strife to the tribe; Coward, son of the Moon; the Man and the Dog who become Stars; the Old Woman who kept all the pecans; Splinter-Foot Boy and Medicine-Screech-Owl; water monsters; animal-people; and cannibals.
Illustrations: Illus
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Returns: Returnable
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