Natachés;
Natsytos.
The Cachaymons and the Cadodaquis had been previously visited by
Cavelier de la Salle, when returning from the Cenys, in the central
parts of Texas.[33]
[Footnote 33: Cf. Margry IV, 178. 313. 409.]
The Caddo confederacy consists of the following divisions or tribes,
as given me by a Caddo Indian in 1882:
Kado proper; kádo means _chief, principal_.
Anadáko, Anadāku; also Nandako.
Ainai, Ayenai; also Hini, Inies upon an affluent of Sabine
river; identical with the Tachies (Sibley). From this tribal
name is derived _Texas_, anciently Tachus, Taxus.
Natchidosh, Nashédosh; the Natchitoches.
Yátassi.
Anabaidaítcho, Nabádatsu; the Nabedatches, who are nearly
extinct now.
Nátassi; identical with the Natachés above.
Nakúhĕdōtch, Nakohodótse; the Nagogdoches.
Assine, Assíni; the Asinays of French explorers.
Hadaí; the Adái, Adáye, q. v.
Yowā′ni, now in Texas.
A′-ish; a few of these are now living in Texas, called Alish,
Eyish by former writers.
The Caddo relate, as being the mythical origin of their nation, that
they came from a water-sink in Louisiana, went westward, shoved up
earth by means of arrow-heads, and thus made a mountain. The totems of
their gentes once were, as far as remembered, _bear_ ná-ustse,
_panther_ kö′she, _wolf_ tá-isha, _snake_ kíka, _wild-cat_ wadó,
_owl_ néa, ó-ush.
When Milfort passed through the Red river country about 1780, the
Caddo, whom he describes as fallacious in trading, were at war with
the Cha'hta (Mémoire, p. 95).
In 1705 some Colapissa from the Talcatcha river, four leagues from
Lake Pontchartrain, settled upon the northern bank of this lake at
Castembayouque (now Bayou Castin, at Mandeville), and were joined, six
months after, by a party of "Nassitoches," whom famine had driven from
their homes on Red river.[34]
[Footnote 34: Pénicaut, in Margry V, 459-462.]