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QUAHADI INDIANS. The Quahadi (Kwahadi, Kwahari, Kuahadi, Llaneros, Quaahda, Quahada) Indians were an important Comanche Indian group whose territory was the Llano Estacado.^qv The name means antelope, the animals being numerous in that area and forming an important part of aboriginal diet.

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

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