HAINAI INDIANS. The Hainai (Aynais, Aynay, Ainai, Ioni, and Ayonai) Indians, a Hasinai-Caddoan group that lived on the Neches and Angelina rivers, was the leading group in the Hasinai confederacy.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (2 vols., Washington: GPO, 1907, 1910; rpt., New York: Pageant, 1959).

Margery H. Krieger