CULTURE
TRIBES
Caddo
Atakapan
(sometimes grouped
w/ Gulf Cultures)
LOCATION
EAST TEXAS
REGION: Coastal
Plains (Piney Woods,
Post Oak Belt and
Blackland Prairies)
SURVIVAL
FARMERS!!
 Corn
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SHELTER
Dome shaped homes
of mud and straw
Squash
Fruit (plums)
Beans
Buffalo
Sunflowers
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A little hunting
 Fish
 Small game
(today-reservation in East
TX)
Tigua
REGION: Mountains
& Basins
EL PASO
Jumanos
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Agriculture
Advanced
government
CONFEDERACY
Men & women in
leadership
Shaman - healer
Pottery
Trotline for fishing
Traded with other
cultures
Irrigation for crops
SEDENTARY PERMANENTLY
SETTLED
WEST TEXAS
(today – reservation in El
Paso)
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Wichita
AlabamaCoushatta
GOV’T/BELIEFS
ACCOMPLISHMENTS/
ADAPTATION
FARMERS
 Corn
 Squash
 Beans
 Melon
 Prickly pear
 Cactus
 Occasional buffalo
and small game
SEDENTARY PERMANENTLY
SETTLED
Adobe huts
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Irrigation systems
Pottery
Stone boiling
cooking
Matrilineal
ancestry
Tattoos
Wore sandals
made of yucca,
mud hats
Peaceful/traded
with others
CULTURE
TRIBES
LOCATION
SURVIVAL
SHELTER
GOV’T/BELIEFS
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Hunter/Gatherers
Coahuiltecan
(long distance
runners)
Karankawa
(cannibals?)
Coahuilticans –
SOUTH TX PLAINS
Coahuiltecan –
FORAGERS
REGION: Coastal
 Wild berries
Plains (SOUTH TEXAS  Pecans
PLAINS-the part with all  Fruits
the grass and scratchy
 Roots
plants!!)
 Deer
 Lizards
Karankawa – GULF
 Snakes
COAST
 Javalina
 Insects
REGION: Coastal
Plains (GULF COAST Karankawa –
PLAINS - along the
 Seafood
coastline-water and
beach people)
NOMADIC
Coahuiltecan – small
“lean-to” homes made
of sticks and animal
skin
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Fished with
bows & arrows
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Dug out canoes
Karankawa – folded
like an umbrella
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Shaman
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Used grease
from alligators as
insect repellant
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Used oil/tar
substance to
make waterproof
pottery
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Hunters
Warriors
Expert
Horsemanship –
used horse after
being brought by
Spanish
Shaman
Chief
Kept written
histories (Kiowa)
Brush huts (wikiups)
GREAT PLAINS
Comanche
Apache
Tonkawa
Hunter/Gatherers
REGION: Great Plains &
North Central Plains (The
High Plains and part of the
North Central Plains)
NEAR AUSTIN (Tonkawa)
REGION: Great Plains
(Edwards Plateau and a
little of the Coastal)
PANHANDLE
(Kiowa)
Kiowa
REGION: Great Plains (the
northern part of the High
Plains)
**BUFFALO
(used ALL parts of the
buffalo for food, tools,
shelter, clothing, toys,
religion…)
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Deer
Rabbits
Coyotes
Wolves
Bear
Elk
Antelope
NOMADIC
Tepees
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Women were in
charge of the
tepees
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