An Indian of a tribe now extinct.
1818. [He has] returned from a trading expedition up the Red River … among the Iotans, Cados, and Choctaws…. A Cado bit off the under-lip of a Choctaw.—Birkbeck, ‘Letters from Illinois,’ p. 111 (Phila.).
1836. A Caddo had been seized as a spy, and threatened with death…. He fired, and the next instant the Caddo’s knife was in his heart, for the savage sprang with the quickness of the wild cat upon his prey.—‘Col. Crockett in Texas,’ pp. 122–3 (Phila.).
1838. In the place of the wild Caddoes and Camanches would appear a race of men rapidly fulfilling the high destiny of civilized man.—Mr. Preston of So. Car. in the House of Representatives: Congressional Globe, p. 558, Appendix.
1844. A treaty with the Caddoes and other wandering tribes.—Congressional Globe, p. 377.
