Before the discovery of the New World by the Europeans numerous native societies coexisted throughout the Americas. Many of those societies had developed complex cultures, elaborate religious practices, and large alliance and trade networks. Generally they lived in peace, and were based on either on farming or on hunting and gathering, and sometimes on both When the first European explorers crossed the Mississippi river and continued West, they came upon a large confederacy of Indian tribes, which shared the same language and lifestyle Little did the Caddo know then that those white men who brought them gifts from across the sea will destroy their ancient culture. By the end of the nineteenth century Caddoan society was practically
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