NABEYXA INDIANS. The Nabeyxa (Nabeyeyxa) Indians are referred to in a single Spanish document written late in the seventeenth century. As the name occurs in a list of twenty-one tribes, nineteen of which are clearly Caddoan, it seems likely that the Nabeyxas were a small and perhaps peripheral tribe of the southwestern or Hasinai group of Caddo Indians in eastern Texas. J. R. Swanton has suggested that this name may be a synonym for Nabedache, but both names occur on the same list.

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).

Thomas N. Campbell