Disinherited: Caddo Indians Loss of their Homelands - DVD

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Facing great anti-Indian forces in the1700s and1800s and facing genocide, Caddo people were reduced from a population of 10,000 to 20,000 at time of European contact to only 550 souls when they arrived in western Oklahoma in 1859.

This is the story of the chaotic and dangerous events of the Caddo people, comprised of the Kadohadocho, Hasinai, and Natchitoches tribes, covering the period from the entrada of the Hernando DeSoto expedition in 1542, to they’re being removed to an assigned land in western Oklahoma in 1859, and in their struggles during and after the Civil War.

Presented are the negotiations, wanderings, attempted settlements, battles, and confrontations with the militia and anti-Indian groups of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma and other groups as they tried to find safe and suitable sites upon which to settle.

Caddos Indians ruled and dominated approximately 3 million acres along and near the Red River north of the Gulf of Mexico. The European and American empires and pioneers and other displaced Indian tribes converging into this natural resources rich area understood that they must negotiate with this Caddos in order to establish trade networks and for creating colonies and settlements. This created a roiling and contentious environment for all involved and became a perilous time for Caddo Indians both in safety and in loss of territory and resulted in the Caddos ceding by treaty their lands in Arkansas and Louisiana in 1835.

Produced and narrated by Phil Cross, who is an enrolled member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and who grew up on his family's reservation allotted land in western Oklahoma.