1. Good morning.
Pick up a paper from the podium and write your name on the top line. We are six weeks into school. Think about your weekly quizzes. How do you think you are doing on them in general? What could you be doing differently that would help improve your grades? What could I do differently? Take a minute to really reflect and write on this. You are turning it in to me. I will read it!

2. Kiowa Apaches Comanche Tonkawas
The Plains People
Kiowa
Apaches
Comanche
Tonkawas

3. Kiowa
The Kiowa lived in and around the Texas panhandle of the Great Plains region.
They were friends and close allies with the Comanche who lived in the same region.

4. KIOWAS They were nomadic Hunters and Gatherers
Relied on buffalo for food, shelter, clothing, weapons, and tools
Painted pictures of events on their tepees
Made beaded crafts
Fierce Fighters

6. APACHES
Relied on buffalo for food, shelter, clothing, weapons, and tools
One way they would hunt buffalo on foot was to stampede them over a cliff. 
Wintertime – hunter gatherers
Summertime – farmers
Farmed corn, squash, and beans when they could

7. APACHES Mts Basin and the southern Great Plains regions of TX
hot and dry summers, cold and dry winters
Wore high boots made of leather
Fierce fighters – said to be the deadliest warriors of all
Great Horsemen

8. COMANCHES
Relied on buffalo for food, shelter, clothing, weapons, and tools
Hunter-Gathers and Nomadic
Lived in tipis
Fierce warriors on horseback
They used spears, shields, lances & bows and arrows
Painted pictures of events on their tepees to teach each other

9. COMANCHES Men fought and hunted
Women gathered the plants and wild berries for food.
Women wore decorated dresses & wore their hair short
Men wore their hair long and braided
Made pemmican from the buffalo meat
Pemmican was valuable and was traded with other tribes.

10. TONKAWAS Tonkawa means, "the people of the Wolf”
Hunters and Gatherers, and Farming
Hunted buffalo and deer
Fished rivers and tributaries near present day Austin
Were not nomadic since they had an ample food supply

11. TONKAWAS Farmed corn, beans, squash, melons
Skilled artisans; created clay pots/jars as well as leather goods
The Tonkawa lived in both huts, wickiups and tee-pees
They were enemies of the Comanches and Apaches
They acted as scouts and troops for the Texas Rangers and the U S Army on several occasions.