Vocabulary/Trivia
Always moving in search of food.
What is nomad?
Where the Southeastern and Gulf cultures would have lived today.
What is the Coastal Plains?
The Puebloan tribe that disappeared in 1400AD
Who are the Jornada?
A tribe that painted their faces to show they were peaceful.
Who were the Jumano?
The reason why people would have first came to the Americas.
What is looking for food?
Agriculture.
What first came to Texas in 1200AD?
A tribe that used mounds to bury their elite.
Who were the Caddo?
The city that the Puebloan Tribes lived nearby in modern-day Texas.
What is El Paso?
A tribe that was the first to use horses and the Kentucky rifle.
Who were the Apache?
Any object made or used by humans such as tools, pottery, bones, and shells.
What is an artifact?
The reason why many Native American tribes vanished by the year 1700.
What is disease?
A tribe that lived along the barrier islands of Texas.
Who were the Karankawa?
The only Puebloan Tribe that currently has a reservation in Texas.
Who are the Tigua?
A tribe that was nomadic and lived in tepees in the Great Plains.
Who were the Tonkawa?
Scientists that dig up and study artifacts.
What are archaeologists?
A person believed to be able to communicate with spirits and heal the sick.
What is a shaman?
The tribe that Texas only natural lake is named after.
Who are the Caddo?
A type of home made of clay and straw.
What is adobe?
A tribe that had a peace agreement with the Apache and Comanche.
Who were the Kiowa?
The three Native American reservations in Texas.
What are the Tigua, the Kickapoo, and the Alabama-Coushatta?
Because the Bison were all gone.
What was the reason why Native Americans left Texas in the 1870s?
A tribe that lived inland and used bows and arrows to kill bison.
Who are the Coahualtican?
Ysleta del Sur.
What is the name of the place where the Tigua settled?
A tribe that came from the Rocky Mountains and kicked the Apache out of Texas.
Who were the Comanche?
There are artifacts that were discovered in South America that are older than artifacts discovered in North America.
Why are there two different theories on how people first came to the Americas?