Vocabulary/Trivia
Always moving in search of food.
What is the definition of nomad?
Where the Southeastern and Gulf cultures would have lived today.
What is the Coastal Plains?
The region of Texas where the Puebloan Tribes were located.
What is the Mountains and Basins Region?
The region of Texas where the Plains Tribes were located.
What is the Great Plains Region?
The two theories that archaeologists have about how Native Americans came to the Americas.
What is crossing boats or crossing the land bridge?
land bridge is located at the Bering Strait in between modern-day Alaska and Russia.
The practice that arrived in Texas around 1200 AD which allowed tribes to not all be nomadic.
What is agriculture?
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?
There are artifacts that were discovered in South America that are older than artifacts discovered in North America.
Why there are two different theories about how Native Americans came to the Americas?
An invention made between 600-700AD that made killing food easier.
What is a bow and arrow?
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?
Two Plains Tribes that were known to be hunters and warriors.
Who are the Apache and Comanche?
Anything that was used by humans throughout history, such as a bone, tool, or pottery.
What is an artifact?
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 in the Coastal Plains that would hunt small animals with bows and arrows.
Who are the Coahuiltecan?
If they were nomadic they lived in temporary housing like tepees and if they farmed they lived in permanent housing like adobe.
What is an easy way to determine whether or not a tribe was nomadic?
Because the Bison were all gone.
What was the reason why Native Americans left Texas in the 1870s?
The two Native American tribes that have reservations located in the Coastal Plains Region.
Who are the Alabama Coushatta and the Kickapoo?
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?
If a tribe lived by water they fished, if they lived by good trees and soil they farmed, if they lived in wide open spaces they hunted for example.
What are ways that geography shaped how Native American tribes lived?