Nabiti

The Nabiti were a Hasinai group of the Caddo in eastern Texas, also recorded as Namidish and Nawidish. The Hasinai occupied a compact area in the middle Neches and upper Angelina valleys, and the Nabiti lived near the Anadarko. French and Spanish travellers first visited the Hasinai in the seventeenth century. Hasinai agriculture rested on maize, beans and squash, supported by hunting, fishing and the taking of bear and buffalo. The French explorer Bénard de La Harpe recorded that the Nabiti were at war with the Natchitoches between 1714 and 1716, and that the Spanish set up a temporary settlement among them.