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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David La Vere. The Caddo Chiefdoms: Caddo Economics and Politics, 700–1835. (Indians of the Southeast.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1998. Pp. xiv, 198. $45.00.

Several excellent books on the Caddos have appeared in recent years, some by archaeologists, some by anthropologists, and some by historians. David La Vere takes an interdisciplinary, ethnological approach, and as a result his study contributes significantly to ongoing scholarly efforts to understand the Caddo's long—but to modern viewers often confusing—history. 1

The Caddos, who may at one time have numbered some 250,000 or more people, lived across a wide area that embraced eastern Texas, eastern Oklahoma, and western Arkansas. Their homeland was at the western edge of the southern forests, and they hunted both the woodlands and the prairie plains. They fished the lakes and rivers near their villages. They were also skilled traders whose numerous communities stood astride important trade routes connecting the Pueblo region of modern New Mexico on the west with residents of the Mississippi Valley on the east and the Gulf of Mexico on the south with Indian groups to their north. But mainly they were horticulturists who raised corn, beans, squash, and other crops on the rich bottom lands of their well-watered territory. If La Vere is correct, the Caddos lived comfortably and profitably with an economy that employed hunting, fishing, farming, and trading to considerable advantage. . . .

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