BATA INDIANS. The Batas are known from a 1691 Spanish missionary report that identifies them as living about eighty leagues southwest of the Hasinai Indians of eastern Texas. Their affiliations remain unknown.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: John R. Swanton, Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 132, Washington: GPO, 1942).
