How Texas Got It's Name

Texas can trace the it's name to the Caddo Indian tribe and the Spanish Conqestidors during the mid 1500's. For thousands of years, the Caddo nation with it's society of farmers, warriors, potters, priests, and traders, was a powerful and populous people linked by language, kinship, and beliefs, but divided into several dozen named groups, each having its own history, territory, and traditions. Collectively, the Caddo-speaking peoples formed a society that early Spanish explorers highly regarded as civilized and friendly in comparison to many of their neighbors. Tejas is the Spanish spelling of a Caddo word taysha, which means "friend" or "ally". In the 17th century the Spanish knew the westernmost Caddo peoples as "the great kingdom of Tejas" and the name was modified to the English spelling, Texas. First, the Tejas Kingdom became the Republic of Texas and later the 28th state of the United States, Texas. During the Spanish exploration of Texas around 1540, the Spaniards met the Hasnai Caddo tribe in present-day East Texas. The Caddos used the word tayshas for "friends" or "allies." In Spanish, the translation came out as tejas. Eventually, Tejas became Texas.

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