People

====Caddo - .the Caddo in arkansas also had an important industry, making salt. The Caddo grew tobbacco, which they smoked on special occasions. Caddo had a large and complex farming culture. Population often reached up to eight thousand indians. Bieng such excellent farmers, they raised corn and beans, as well as hunting different animals. The Caddo lived in conic shelters usually composed of long pole set deep into the ground in a circle and tied together at the top. they then added a thick cover of thatching made of grass. They mostly lived in eastern Oklahoma.====

====Quapaw - It is beleived that the Quapaw began as a small branch of the sioux language group of indians in the middle of North America approximately 350 years ago. The Quapaw grew squash, beans, and corn and did some fishing and hunting. Their houses, usually shared by several families, were long rectangles with curved roofs, made of wood and covered by bark. They were then beleived to have moved down to tnear the mouth of the Arkansas River. They grew squash, beans, and corn; They also did some hunting and fishing. Their houses were built long and narrow with curved walls and a roof covered in bark. The Quapaw indians beleived in a powerful force called Wakontah, which was believed to live in all existing things. The tribe had Shamans that led the ceremonies and rituals to respect Wakontah.====

Osage - The Osage were a hunting tribe, and they did not actually live in Arkansas. They mostly lived in what was southern Missouri. Although they did some farming, they still relied on hunting for their primary source of food. The Osage were Pantheistic, they believed that all living things came from the life - giving force Wakontah. The Osage live in long rectangular houses that reached up to 100 feet long. The Framework was covered in hides, bark sheets or wooven mats with smoke holes left open at the top. =Three Indian Tribes- Quapaw, Osage and Caddo. Research the ** Characteristics of each tribe including housing, location, trade, religion and social organization. **=