Patiri

The Patiri were a small Atakapan-speaking people of southeastern Texas. Their country lay in the forested ground between the Bidai and the Akokisa, and their language placed them among the Atakapan groups of the region, with whom they were recorded together. From 1749 to 1751 Patiri people were recorded at San Ildefonso mission on the San Gabriel River, alongside Akokisa, Bidai and Deadose. The mission was short-lived, and after it the Patiri no longer appear as a separate people; they probably merged into the Bidai and Akokisa. People called Petaro, met by La Salle's expedition in the same area in the late seventeenth century, were probably the same people.