Vocabulary
Person that moves for its food or moves around
What is Nomadic
This region gets the most rainfall.
What is The Coastal Plains
What tribe lived along the Gulf Coast and rubbed alligator fat on their bodies to repel mosquitoes?
Which tribes belong to the Gulf culture
atakapan, karnkawa, and coahuiltcan
This natural region of Texas is the MOST HUMID of all the regions.
The Coastal Plains
Person that stays in one place or starts a farm and builds a community
What is sedentary?
This region gets the least amount of rainfall
What is the mountains and basins ?
This tribe lived in adobe houses (made out of clay bricks) and were traders with other Indian groups.
Jumanos
Which tribes belong to the Puebloan culture?
Tigua & Jumano
Which region does Austin belong to?
North central plains
Different materials like minerals, forests, water, and farmland are known as?
Natural resources
What does the city of Houston and Dallas have in common?
Both are large metropolitan cities
This tribe built a very complex society, were fantastic farmers, and traced their family history through their mother's side of the family.
Caddo
Which tribes belong to the plains culture
Apache, Kiowa, Wichita, & Comanche
Which region does the city of El paso belong to?
Mountains and basins
Traced their kinship in tribes were based on their mother
What is matrilineal?
The river that is the boundary between Texas and Mexico
What is the Rio Grande
This CULTURE included the Apache and the Comanche, who were excellent horsemen, were nomadic because they hunted the buffalo, and were very feared by early settlers.
The Plains Culture
Tribes of the Southeast Culture?
Caddo, and Tonkawa
What river boarders Texas and Lousianna?
Sabine river
Traced their kinship through their father
what is Patrilineal?
The river that boarders Texas and Oklahoma
What is the Red River?
How did the Gulf Indians differ from the Plains Indians?
They ate large amounts of oysters (seafood)
What did the Comanche Indians in northwest Texas have in common with the Jumanos Indians of Southwest Texas?
They hunted buffalo
What economy does the great plains region have?
farming wheat, ranching cattle, sheep and goat