The Waco (also spelled Huaco[2] and Hueco[3]) of the Wichita people are a Southern Plains Native American tribe that inhabited northeastern Texas.

[4] Today, they are enrolled members of the federally recognized Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, headquartered in Anadarko, Oklahoma.

[5] French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe travelled through the region in 1719, and the people he called the Honecha or Houecha could be the Waco.

In 1824, Stephen F. Austin wrote that the Waco village was 40 acres large, with 33 grass houses and about 100 men.

The tribe lived in beehive-shaped houses, with pole supports, typically covered with rushes, but sometimes buffalo hides.