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Hainai Indian History
Hainai. A tribe of the Caddo confederacy, otherwise known as Inie, or Ioni.
After the Spanish occupancy their village was situated 3 leagues west of the
mission of Nacogdoches, in east Texas; it contained 80 warriors, the same number
assigned to the Hainai by Sibley in 1805, who perhaps obtained his information
from the same sources. Sibley places their village 20 miles from Natchitoches,
La. In manners, customs, and social organization the Hainai do not appear to
have differed from the other tribes of the Caddo confederacy, whose subsequent
fate they have shared. By Sibley and others they are called "Tachies or Texas",
as if that term applied to them particularly. The "great nation called Ayano or
Cannohatinno," according to the narrative of the La Salle expedition in 1687,
were not the Hainai, as has been sometimes supposed, or any tribe at all,
properly speaking. Ayano, or hayano, is merely the Caddo word for
people,' while Kano-hatino, is the Caddo equivalent for 'Red river,' presumably
the same stream now so called. The Indians simply informed the explorer that
many people lived on Red river, a statement which the French, in their ignorance
of the language, construed to contain the definite name and synonym of a
powerful tribe.
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