Thursday, December 6, 2012

The Caddo Indians: Tribes at the Convergence of Empires, 1542-1854 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University)

In 1542 members of the thriving Caddo Indian culture came face to face with Luis de Moscoso, successor to Hernando de Soto as leader of a Spanish exploration party. That encounter marked a turning point for this centuries-old people, whose history from then on would be dominated by the interaction of the native confederacies with the empires of various European adventurers and settlers.Much has been written about the confrontations of Euro-Americans with Native Americans, but most of it has

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