jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_7").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_7", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", fadeOutSpeed: 100, predelay: 400, position: "top right", relative: true, offset: [10, 10] }); into the grave. Your email address will not be published. Their villages and farms stretched from hundreds of years ago. They met the whites as early as 1540, and throughout their history have maintained a friendly attitude toward the whites. Redbird, redbird jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", fadeOutSpeed: 100, predelay: 400, position: "top right", relative: true, offset: [10, 10] }); Anybody arriving too late to see the deceased will go to the grave, to the east side, and, making a pass over the grave, will pass his hands down his own person. museums, she decided to learn how to make it herself and revive the lost tradition. with a Comanche, The Comanche was waving his hand. young girls wear bright costumes with colorful ribbons. Before the corpse is taken out from the house, those present pass their hands over it, from head to feet, and then over their own person. Enter your email address to subscribe to AccessGenealogy and receive notifications of new posts by email. 12Cp. Named undoubtedly for General Sam Houston with whom Caddo were in contact during their Texas sojourn in 1825-1840. and songs of the dance. The men gather in a circle to beat the drums City.). Mooney, 1096, 1098, 1099. jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_9").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_9", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", fadeOutSpeed: 100, predelay: 400, position: "top right", relative: true, offset: [10, 10] }); As such “evil things” are abroad at night the bow and arrows for the deceased should be made in the day time. your family going back 10 or 15 generations. sticks. Burial Customs of the Caddo Tribe. The Caddos came to East Texas from the Mississippi Valley around 800 A.D. Their territory included parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and East Texas. knowledge from tribal elders down to the younger generations. 1000 years! Miranda, a young Caddo girl, shown in her school classroom. to them by their mothers, aunts, and grandmothers. probably know where their grandparents, great-grandparents, and even great-great Oklahoma Arts Council (Remaining Ourselves: Music and Tribal memory, Today, the Caddo continue to Examples of religious ceremonies, some of which still exist today, include the ghost dance and lengthy funeral services followed by internment in a … The Caddo, numbering 530 in 1903, are of Caddoan stock, and since 1859 have lived in western Oklahoma between the Washita and Canadian rivers, where they have been closely associated with the Wichita. Today the Caddo are much like any other residents The comparison of the Caddo tales with those of other tribes is deferred until the completion of the present investigation. The head of the grave must be at the west, 6Cp. grandparents may have lived. There is a big river crossed by a small log. If the deceased is interfered with, he will linger about until the shaman sets him on the right road again. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. 10It is the ghost itself that would fetch them, according to Dorsey, and the appearance of a ghost is a sign of death in the family.