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The Yatasi were a Native American people of Louisiana, part of the Natchitoches Native Americans who were part of that Caddo Nation, who lived in the area to the south of modern Shreveport prior to the European incursion into the area. The State of Louisiana ( or, État de Louisiane, pronounced) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America The Caddo are a nation or group of tribes of Southeastern Native Americans who in the 16th century inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Shreveport is the third-largest city and the principal city of the third largest Metropolitan area in the U

The Yatasi spoke a Caddoan language and were culturally similar to surrounding groups such as the Adai. The Caddoan languages are a family of Native American languages.

Sources

Kniffen, Fred B. , Hiram F. Gregory and George A. Stokes. The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana from 1542 to the Present (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987) p. 47


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