Pachina

Pachina was the name given in eighteenth-century accounts to a people east of the Sabine River, in a region of forests and waterways near the Gulf coast. French traders came overland from their country to visit the Bidai and Orcoquisac farther west. In 1746 those communities told Spanish investigator Joaquín de Orobio y Basterra of the trade, through which bear, deer and bison hides were exchanged across the colonial frontier.