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else Sibley confounds them with the Nasoni, for he says they lived 

 on the south bank of Red River "at a beautiful prairie" which had 

 a clear lake of water in the middle of it and was "surrounded by a 

 pleasant and fertile country." Sibley adds that the Kadohadacho 

 believed that that country "had been the residence of their ancestors 

 from time immemorial," that near this lake was an eminence 

 upon which one family had been saved in a universal deluge, and that 

 from this family they themselves and a number of related tribes 

 were descended. But according to informants of Wm. B. Parker, 

 as reported to Schoolcraft, they had a tradition that they had issued 

 from the hot springs of Arkansas. There was at one time a French 

 settlement near the old Caddo town and they "erected a good flour 

 mill with burr stones brought from France." About 1780, however, 

 they abandoned the place and settled near Campti, La. A part of the 

 Kadohadacho settled lower down Red River on the east side, but 

 there their enemies, the Osages, fell upon them, slaughtered a great 

 many, and drove the rest away. It was then, probably, that they 

 moved to a point on Sodo Creek 35 miles west of the main channel of 

 Red River. In 1825 they agreed to share their lands with the Quapaw 

 Indians, and the Quapaw reached them late in the same year but 

 did not prosper and soon relinquished their claims in the Caddo 

 country for a territory in the present Oklahoma, to which they 

 removed in 1833. Two years later, the Caddo Indians surrendered 

 all of their lands within the boundaries of the United States and 

 removed into Texas, then a part of the Republic of Mexico. Their 

 subsequent history has been given under the heading Caddo. 



Kadohadacho population, — It is not given separately from that of 

 the related bands. (See Caddo.) 



KAN-HATKI 



The history of this town is an almost perfect parallel of that of 

 Fus-hatchee, one of its nearest neighbors. It appears on the 

 De Crenay map of 1733 as already in existence, is noted repeatedly 

 from that time on, and is described by Hawkins. Swan calls it a 

 Shawnee town, butjthis was probably owing to the near neighbor- 

 hood of Sawanogi and the presence of some Shawnee in the popula- 

 tion. The census of 1832 mentions a town called "Ekun-duts-ke," 

 but it probably had nothing to do with the one under discussion. 

 The people of this town seem to have gone to Florida in a body and 

 later to the Seminole Nation in Oklahoma, uniting with the Fus- 

 hatchee (q. V.) and following their fortunes. 



Kan-hatki population, — The following figures covering the effec- 

 tive male population of the town are given: 12 in 1738, 15 in 1750, 

 40 in 1760 (including some Coosa Indians), and 30 in 1761 and in 

 1792. 



