a. Caddo
The rules governing encounters between whites and Native Americans on the other side of the Mississippi war perhaps clearest in south eastern Texas, where small numbers of French and Spanish colonist labor to gain permanent foothold in the early 1700s. France and Spain were not expecting to extract precious metals from the earth or to command plantation labor here. Instead, they were competing to establish relations with the powerful Caddo people, who controlled a significant territory in water now eastern Texas and Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas.