1. American Indians
Texas Regions

2. Warm Up
How did the physical environment of American Indians tribes affect their housing, occupation and lifestyles?

3. Vocabulary
Domestication: the process of adapting wild plants & animals for human use.
Band: two or more extended families that lived together under one leader.
Pueblo: large Native American homes made of adobe.
Adobe: A mix of wet clay and straw that is made into bricks and dried in the sun.
Tribe: a number of bands that followed the same leader and shared the same territory and culture.

4. Bering Strait
The first people of North America are believed to have crossed from Asia into North American, either by a land bridge or by water between 30, 000 and 15,000 years ago.
As the first peoples spread throughout North and South America their customs, traditions and languages changed as they adapted to new environments and new ways of food production.

5. Indian in Texas Regions

6. Gulf Coast region
Karankawa: Southeast(location), used dugout canoes to fish and hunt small animals.
Coalhuiltchens: South Texas (location), ate bugs and small animals.
Atakapans: hunted small animals and fished in dugout canoes, some farming.

7. Great Plains region
Nomadic-dependent on the buffalo (fierce warriors).
Comanche: used every part of the buffalo, lived in tipis, domesticated animals before they were introduced.
Apache: used buffalo hide to protect themselves from the harsh landscape, For part of the year they lived in farming communities along rivers and streams called rancherias.

8. Puebloan
Sedentary farmers (rich environment and complex social systems) and lived in houses made of adobe
Jumanos: besides farming, they hunted, traded, and lived in beautiful pained adobe homes.
Tiguas: known for their beautiful pottery.

9. Southeastern Texas
Sedentary food-rich environment and complex social systems
Caddoes: built dome shaped huts organized government system led by a chief. Women played small roles. Introduced term Tejas (friends).
Wichitas: hunted buffalos, grew crops and known for the tattoos around their eyes known as “raccoon eyes”.