BATA INDIANS
BATA INDIANS. The Batas are known from a 1691 Spanish missionary report that identifies them as living about eighty leagues southwest of the Hasinai Indians of eastern Texas. Their affiliations remain unknown.
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).
Citation
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.
Thomas N. Campbell, "BATA INDIANS," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/bmb02), accessed May 23, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
