land=mother???

[Wallace Chafe]

The Seneca (and other Iroquois) ritual expression for the earth means "our
mother, who serves as a support for our feet".

Yes, the Caddo expression is ina? wa:dat (? for glottal stop, and wa:dat
has an accent on the first syllable). It's quite literally "mother earth".
Can ina? be a borrowing from Osage (assuming that Osage women captives
often became Caddo mothers)?

Wally