The Caddo NationFirst published in 1992 and now updated with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Thomas R. Hester, "The Caddo Nation" investigates the early contacts between the Caddoan peoples of the present day Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas region and Europeans, including the Spanish, French, and some Euro Americans. Perttula's study explores Caddoan cultural change from the perspectives of both archaeological data and historical, ethnographic,