Vocabulary/Trivia
Always moving in search of food.
What is nomadic?
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?
A Land Bridge.
How do archaeologists believe Native Americans crossed over the Pacific Ocean?
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?
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?
A tribe that was nomadic and lived in tepees in the Great Plains.
Who were the Tonkawa?
Used as a way to store food and came to Texas around the same time as bows and arrows.
What is pottery?
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?
You have to pronounce the j like an h.
How do you say Jornada and Jumano?
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 do archaeologists also think Native Americans might have crossed the Pacific Ocean on boats?