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Ethnohistory and Archaeology pp 89–109Cite as

Kee-Oh-Na-Wah’-Wah

The Effects of European Contact on the Caddoan Indians of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma

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What were the effects of European contact (as exploration, exploitation, and settlement) upon the indigenous Southern Caddoan-speaking groups who were living in Eastern Texas, Northwest Louisiana, Southwest Arkansas, and Eastern Oklahoma in 1540 when they initially encountered Europeans? To study this problem, one of the central themes of this book (see Wilson and Rogers, this volume), I would like to address the dual research questions: (a) What are the principal ways in which the culture of these Native Americans was affected and changed by European contact and (b) what have been the long-term consequences of the effects of continuing contact with Europeans to their traditional cultural lifeways? The goals of this study are to elucidate the processes of culture change among Caddoan groups since their initial encounter with Europeans in the mid-sixteenth century.

Translated as “Old People-Ancestors” in the Caddoan language (Newkumet and Meredith 1988:39).

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Perttula, T.K. (1993). Kee-Oh-Na-Wah’-Wah. In: Rogers, J.D., Wilson, S.M. (eds) Ethnohistory and Archaeology. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1115-5_6

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