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Review of Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy
This slender but far ranging volume presents the modem Hasinai Caddo view of their origin and traditional lifeways. It is based primarily on oral traditions and secondarily on published and archival material. The information culled from these sources is woven into a framework of twelve chapters, each of which is introduced by a description of a dance. All but one of the dances make up a night\u27s cycle of ceremonial song and dance that reenact the tribal history