1. Native Texans

5. How did the physical regions of Texas determine how the Native Americans survived??

6. Map of Texas 4 regions - pg. 552 Major rivers of Texas

7. What was the most important factor that affected Native Texans?
Geography – Ex. Land, water, ability to hunt, etc

8. Similarities
All Native Texans respected the environment and protected natural resources.

9. confederacy – groups within a larger association
matrilineal – tracing descendents through their mothers’ families
shaman – people believed to have the power to summon spirits and to cure; led religious ceremonies; made
medicine from plants; cared for the sick

10. customs – cultural ways of doing things
environment – surroundings
natural resources – vegetation, wildlife, water, minerals, and soil
adobe – bricks made by drying clay, mud, and straw in the sun

11. plain – wide flat area – rolling – good for planting crops
nomad – people who wander from place to place in search of food
era – a period of time as reckoned from a specific date serving as the basis of its chronological system

12. aquifer – An underground layer of porous rock that yields water through springs or wells
canyon - A deep narrow valley with steep sides and often a stream flowing through it

13. Native Texans
4 Cultural Regions

14. Plains
Southeastern
Puebloan
Western Gulf

15. Southeastern
Caddos
Wichita
Atakapans

16. Western Gulf
Karankawa
Coahuiltecans

17. Plains Tribes
Tonkawas
Apaches
Comanches
Kiowa
Mescalero

18. Pueblo
Jumano
Conchos
Tigua