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

2. Kiowa
The Kiowa lived in the Texas panhandle of the Great Plains region.
They were friends with the Comanche.

3. 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

5. 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

6. APACHES Mts Basin/Southern Great Plains regions of TX
Wore high boots made of leather
Fierce fighters –deadliest warriors of all
Great Horsemen

7. COMANCHES
Relied on buffalo for food, shelter, clothing, weapons, and tools
Hunter-Gathers and Nomadic(moved around a lot)
Lived in teepees
Fierce warriors on horseback
They used spears, shields, lances & bows and arrows

8. COMANCHES Men fought and hunted, wore their hair long and braided
Women gathered the plants/wild berries for food and wore decorated dresses & wore their hair short
Made and traded pemmican from the buffalo meat

9. TONKAWAS Tonkawa means, "the people of the Wolf”
Hunters and Gatherers, and Farming
Fished rivers near present day Austin
Were not nomadic. Had an ample food supply

10. TONKAWAS Farmed corn, beans, squash, melons
Skilled artisans; created clay pots/jars 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 /U S Army.