The Caddo River is an 80 mile long river that flows through the US state of Arkansas.
The Caddo River flows out of the Ouachita Mountains through Montgomery, Pike, and Clark counties in Arkansas before flowing into DeGray Lake and then to its terminus at the Ouachita River north of Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
The upper Caddo is known as a good family canoeing river and is a popular destination for fishing. Smallmouth and spotted bass are found in quantity as are longear and green sunfish.
The Caddo River is named for the Caddo Indian tribes that, at one time, lived along its banks.
The name Caddo is derived from French "Cadodaquois" of the eighteenth century and refers to the "Great Chiefs" of the Kadohodacho, the Caddo Indians, who may not have come into the valley proper until the late 1700s (Greer).
By the early 1800s most of the Indians in the area of the Caddo had migrated to Texas, and after a series of treaties (1818, 1820, 1824, 1833, 1835, 1843) and Quapaws were moved through the CaddoRiver region to the Red River Valley in Louisiana and later to Oklahoma.
If a Caddo is killed in battle, the body is never buried, but left to be devoured by beasts or birds of prey, and the condition of such individuals in the other world is considered to be far better than that of persons dying a natural death.
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