VANCA INDIANS. This group is known from one chance meeting with Spanish travelers near the end of the seventeenth century. At this time the Vanca Indians and several other Coahuiltecan bands ranged over the Nueces-Frio area between San Antonio and Eagle Pass.

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

Thomas N. Campbell