Caddo Artists

• T.C. Cannon - Caddo/Kiowa/Choctaw artist, images on Windsor Betts Art Brokerage House
• Dolores Purdy Corcoran- Caddo artist, working with watercolors and gourds
• Dayton Edmonds - full-blood storyteller and artist, working in pencil and prismacolor
• Niki Lee - Caddo/Arikara painter and printmaker from San Francisco, CA
• John Kionut - Caddo Musician who plays water drum and rattles
• Anahwake Nahtanaba - Caddo artist, working with metal sculpture, ceramics, oil painting, and beadwork
• Terry Pickard / Apache Art Company - Native American education in the United Kingdom by Caddo/Apache/Delaware/Wichita artist
• Michael Sheyahshe - Caddo multimedia and education, web design, graphic design, computer animation, video production and editing.
• Thompson Williams - Caddo painter from Edmond, OK

Language Links

• Endangered Language Fund - provides modest grants to "Native communities or scholars to do endangered language related work"
• Foundation for Endangered Languages - provides grants to support the use of endangered languages
• Hello Oklahoma! - Greetings in all the Oklahoma tribal languages, a project of Benjamin Bruce.
• Intertribal Wordpath Society - non-profit organization dedicated to saving Oklahoma's Native languages.
• Resources for Endangered Languages - advice about grants, info about tribal language revitalization projects, full text books with language revitalization methods, and accounts of successful language projects

Other Native American Links

• American Indian Expo - annual event at the Caddo County Fairgrounds, Anadarko OK
• Meredith Indian Humanities Center - Chickasha OK, planning and development of interdisciplinary, multicultural approaches to the humanities using American Indian, Aleut, and Inuit languages in addition to English and Spanish, in conjunction with USAO
• Indigenous Environmental Network
• Intertribal Bison Cooperative
• Native American Times
• Southeastern Anti-Desecration League - protecting sacred sites and burial grounds
• Southern Plains Indian Museum - Anadarko OK

Bibliography

• Nusht'uhti?ti? Hasinay: Caddo Language Program (with 2 audio CD's), produced by Kiwat Hasinay Foundation, speaker Randlett Edmonds, Richardson, TX: Various Indian Peoples Publishing, 2003.
• Tsa Ch'ayah/How The Turtle Got Its Squares, produced by Kiwat Hasinay Foundation, told by Sadie Bedoka Weller, translated by Wallace Chafe, illustrated by Robin Michelle Montoya, Philadelphia: Xlibris Corporation, 2005.

• Bolton, Herbert Eugene. The Hasinais: Southern Caddoans As Seen by the Earliest Europeans. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1987.
• Carter, Cecile Elkins. Caddo Indians: Where We Come from. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
• Dorsey, George A. and Wallace L. Chafe. Tradition of the Caddo (Sources of American Indian Oral Literature). University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
• Newkumet, Vynola Beaver and Howard L. Meredith. Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1988.
• Perttula, Timothy K. and Thomas R. Hester. The Caddo Nation: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Perspectives (Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series). Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
• Smith, F. Todd. The Caddo Indians: Tribes at the Convergence of Empires, 1542-1854. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1995.
• Smith, F. Todd. The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846-1901 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University, No. 64). College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1996.
• Swanton, John R. and Helen Hornbeck Tanner. Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1996.

 

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