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YBDACAX INDIANS. This name is known only from a single hearsay report. In the early eighteenth century it was given as the name of a group that lived somewhere north of San Juan Bautista,^qv a mission on the south side of the Rio Grande near the site of present Eagle Pass. This would place the Ybdacax Indians south of the Edwards Plateau^qv in Texas, an area dominated by Coahuiltecan speakers.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (2 vols., Washington: GPO, 1907, 1910; rpt., New York: Pageant, 1959). J. R. Swanton, Linguistic Material from the Tribes of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1940).

Thomas N. Campbell

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