Anamis Village

Type: General Entry

Published: 1952

Updated: November 1, 1994

Anamis was an Indian village found by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, in 1686 on his way from Matagorda Bay toward the Mississippi. It was possibly associated with the Caddoans. The actual site has not been identified.

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

Categories:

Peoples
Native American

Time Periods:

Spanish Texas

The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.

Margery H. Krieger, “Anamis Village,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed May 16, 2022, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/anamis-village.

Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

Original Publication Date:: 1952
Most Recent Revision Date:: November 1, 1994

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