The last fluent speaker of what was once the most pervasive tongue in present-day Nacogdoches County has died, we are sad to ...

The Caddo Nation of Oklahoma mourns the loss of Edmond Johnson, the last fluent speaker of the ancient Caddo language. This ...

Dale Watson will perform in Cotton Square Park Saturday as part of Visit Lufkin’s “Summer in the City” series. Lufkin’s Celebration of the Arts, headlined by the free concert, will also feature the ...

Mark A. Goldberg received his BA from the University of Texas at Austin and his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on U.S. Latina/o/x history, the history of ...

Mission Concepción started in 1711 in East Texas to convert the Hasinai people. They packed up and moved to San Antonio in 1731 after French threats, disease, and floods made life miserable.

A group of Caddo are working to restore and revitalize their endangered tradition of river cane bask In the mid-1800’s, the Hasinai Caddo were forcibly removed from their East Texas Homeland ...

He also commissioned the painting of the Hasinai woman, Angelina, giving a face to the county’s namesake. His wife, Patti Smithhart, and son, Kevin Smithhart, accepted the honor on his behalf. “It’s ...

Caddo Mounds State Historic Site, a Texas Historical Commission property, is the remains of a large village and ceremonial center built by a group of Caddo people known as the Hasinai more than ...

The Caddo Mounds once belonged to the Hasinai, an Indigenous group that used to occupy land in the Neches and Angelina river valleys. Now the site is on the National Register of Historic Places and ...

The Caddo Mounds once belonged to the Hasinai, an Indigenous group that used to occupy land in the Neches and Angelina river valleys. Now the site is on the National Register of Historic Places and ...

Texas derives from taysha, a word used by the Hasinai for “friends” or “allies.” Spanish settlers Hispanicized it to Texas, and then English speakers anglicized it to Texas.