Description
First published in 1992 and now up to date with a brand new preface by the writer and a foreword by Thomas R. Hester, “The Caddo Nation” investigates the early contacts between the Caddoan peoples of the current-day Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas region and Europeans, including the Spanish, French, and a few Euro-American citizens.
Perttula’s have a look at explores Caddoan cultural change from the perspectives of both archaeological data and historical, ethnographic, and archival records. The work specializes in changes from A.D. 1520 to ca. A.D. 1800 and challenges many long-standing assumptions concerning the nature of those changes.