Vocabulary
General Native Texas Knowledge
Non-Native Random Questions
Cultures
Tribes
1

A person who moves from place to place

What is a nomad?

1

the place where Natives first crossed

What is the Behring Land Bridge?

1

This is Mr. Spearman's favorite food

What is Chicken?

1

The number of cultures in Native Texas

What is 4?

1

The gulf culture that travels by canoe and were the first Natives to see Europeans.

Who are the Karankawa?

2

an object made or used by humans

What is an artifact?

2

The modern US state where Natives first crossed into North America

What is Alaska?

2

This is Mr. Spearman's favorite color

What is blue?
2

the culture of people that lived in adobe homes

What is Puebloan?

2
the matrilineal tribesmen that lived on the Red River?

Who are the Caddo?

3

a person believed to have power to summon spirits

What is a shaman?

3

this took place at the entrance of a rock shelter

What is cooking/work?

3

This is how many years Mr. Spearman has been a teacher.

What is five years?

3
these are the two cultures of the Puebloan culture

What is Jornada and Tigua?

3

the tribesmen who lived on the South Texas plains, used bow and arrows, gathered cactus, beans, nuts, and roots, and moved around often

Who are the Coahuiltecan

4

a society that traces lineage through the father's line

What is patrilineal or patriarchy?

4

this took place at the back of the rock shelter

What is rest/sleep?

4

This is the class period that Mr. Spearman does not have a class.

What is 5th period?

4
These are the two subcultures of Southeastern culture.

What are Caddo and Coahuiltecan?

4

This is a plain subculture that had the largest area of land, surrounded buffalo when hunting them, and had a peace chief, a war chief, and a council for each tribe

Who are the Comanche

5

a union of groups

What is a confederacy?

5

These are the three advances made by Native Texans

What is pottery, bow and arrow, and agriculture?

5

This is Mr. Spearman's wife. (her name)

Who is Morgan?

5

These are the four cultures of Native Texas

What is Gulf, Southeastern, Puebloan, and Plains?

5

What plain subculture spoke a language similar to early Canadians and relied on bison?

Who are the Apache?