Caddo Nation

The Caddo language name for the people is Hasí꞉nay. When they first met Europeans and Africans, they were organized into three confederacies: the Natchitoches in what is now northern Louisiana, the Hasinai in East Texas, and the Kadohadacho near the borders of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Their Caddoan Mississippian ancestors built platform mounds between about 800 and 1400. After Texas joined the Union in 1845 the Hasinai and Kadohadacho were forced onto the Brazos Reservation, and in 1859 many were moved to Indian Territory. The tribe ratified a constitution on 17 January 1938 and is headquartered at Binger, Oklahoma.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site — 1.0 mi
  A reconstruction of the 1716 French fort beside the Natchitoches village, with a palisade of nearly 2,000 pine logs, a chapel and storeroom, and living-history programs, open Wednesday to Sunday.
• Natchitoches Historic District — 1.2 mi
  The riverfront blocks of the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, founded in 1714 at a Natchitoches village, with a brick-paved Front Street, Cane River frontage and the largest bousillage construction in the South.
• Cane River Creole National Historical Park — 7.0 mi
  Oakland and Magnolia, two Cane River cotton plantations kept as they stood, told through the enslaved families who worked them, the 1864 and 1804 freedom seekers and the tenant farmers who stayed into the 1960s.
• Melrose Plantation — 12 mi
  The Cane River estate built on land granted to Louis Metoyer, son of Marie Thérèse Coincoin, with the Yucca House and African House, later an artists' retreat; guided tours Thursday to Sunday.

More markers nearby

• Henri de Tonti — steps away
• Old Normal Hill — 1.1 mi
• Dr. John Sibley — 1.1 mi
• Northwestern State University — 1.1 mi