Native Americans

1. Native Americans

2. Economic Activities ( How they survived!) • Farming • Caddos (Gulf Coast) and Jumanos (Mountains and Basins) grew crops (specifically corn) to provide for their tribe. Excess was traded with neighboring tribes

3. Economic Activities ( How they survived!) • Trading • Bartering – Native Americans traded goods that they had for goods that other tribes made. Each group of Native Americans made goods conducive to their environment. • When nomadic Texas Indians had excess hides or products made from animals, they would barter or trade with neighboring tribes. • Sedentary tribes like Caddos made jewelry, pottery, and tools to trade with neighboring tribes.

4. Economic Activities ( How they survived!) • Karankawa, Caddo, and Jumano Indians, who were more sedentary, hunted small animals and fished. Their environment lent itself to this type of hunting and gathering. • Hunting • All Indians hunted and gathered their food to meet the needs of their tribes. If there was excess, they would barter or trade with neighboring tribes. • Nomadic Indians such as the Indians of the Great Plains and North Central Plains hunted buffalo, deer, and other animals to meet their basic needs of home, clothing, and tools.

5. Gulf Coastal Plains • Caddo • Sedentary, complex political system, agricultural society, lived in dome-shaped huts • Karankawa • Nomadic, hunt and gather small animals and fish

6. Central Plains • Tonkawa – nomads who lived on the Edwards’s Plateau and Hill Country. They were hunters and gatherers, primarily hunting buffalo, deer, and small animals

7. Great Plains • Apache – nomads who lived in tipis hunting and gathering food (mostly hunting buffalo). The Lipan Apaches adapted to horses when they were introduced by Europeans; Lipan Apaches became more warlike.

8. Mountains and Basins • Pueblo: Jumano and Concho • lived in homes made of adobe that were entered from the roof, lived along rivers and streams, agricultural, hunter-gatherer