1. Southeastern Pueblo Plains Gulf
Live in the forests of East TX
Live in the deserts of West TX
(brown)
(green)
FOOD: Farmers
TRIBES: Caddo, Wichita, Tejas (Hasinai)
LIVED: Piney Woods, Post Oak Belt, Cross Timbers
HOUSING: dome shaped timber and straw houses
***Permanent Villages***
***Known for pottery***
FOOD: Farmers
TRIBES: Tigua, Jumano
LIVED: Mountains and Basins along the Rio Grande
HOUSING: Adobe houses
***Permanent Villages***
***Used irrigation for crops***
Plains
Gulf
Known as warriors and hunters of buffalo
Live on the coasts of TX along the Gulf
(blue)
(red)
FOOD: Nomads (foragers – to search for food)
TRIBES: Karankawa (Gulf Coast Plain), Coahuiltecans (South TX Plains)
LIVED: See above
HOUSING: wikiups (portable grass & stick shelters)
***Cabeza de Vaca lived with this
culture for years***
FOOD: Nomads (hunters)
TRIBES: Comanche, Kiowa, Apache, *Tonkawa (lived in the Austin area)
LIVED: All of the Great Plains, NCP, some Coastal Plains and M&B
HOUSING: Teepees
***Really, REALLY good with horses***
***This culture survived the longest
of the four in TX***

2. Spanish Explorers of TX
TX History Timeline
Spanish Explorers of TX
Native Americans
Geography of TX
CLLaNN
Pre-history to 1519
**The year TX History began**