Han

The Han were an Indigenous people encountered near Galveston Bay on the Texas coast. Their name is known from the account of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who reached this coast after the wreck of a Spanish expedition in 1528. They may have been ancestors of the later Akokisa: in both Akokisa and related Atakapa, a similar word means “house.” Their precise relationship to later coastal communities remains a matter of interpretation.