Caux

The Caux were an Indigenous people living near Galveston Bay on the upper Texas coast, most likely a band of the Akokisa, Atakapan speakers who ranged around the bay and between the Trinity and Sabine rivers. François Simars de Bellisle, a Frenchman, was held by the Caux for several months in 1719–1720, and his account is one of the earliest descriptions of people on this coast. In 1756–1757 Spanish missionaries built the mission of Nuestra Señora de la Luz near the mouth of the Trinity for the Akokisa and Bidai, bringing Spanish institutions into their homeland. The mission closed in 1772.