Nishone

Nishone may refer to the Nasoni, a Caddoan people of northeastern Texas also recorded as Nisohone. They divided into an Upper group living along the Red River, associated with the northern Kadohadacho Caddo, and a Lower group farther south, associated with the Hasinai. The Upper Nasoni fell under French influence from 1719 to 1762, and the French built a post at their main settlement. The Spanish founded Mission San José de los Nazones among the Lower Nasoni in 1716. In the late eighteenth century disease and warfare greatly reduced both groups, and they eventually lost their separate identities among neighbouring Caddo peoples, the Upper group probably absorbed by the Kadohadacho and the Lower by the Anadarko.