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Whispers in the Wind:. Rediscovering Native Americans of Texas. Created By Carmen Phillips Krimmel Intermediate. West Texas Plains. Along Gulf Coast from Galveston to Corpus Christi. Piney Woods of East Texas. Mountains and Basins Region. South Texas Plains. Comanches. Caddo. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Whispers in the Wind:
Rediscovering Native Americans of TexasCreated By Carmen Phillips
Krimmel Intermediate
Caddo
Jumanos
Comanches
West Texas Plains
Piney Woods ofEast Texas
South Texas PlainsMountains and Basins
Region
Along Gulf Coastfrom Galveston to
Corpus Christi
Comanches
(most feared tribe)
www.texasbeyondhistory.net
• Dirt storms and tornadoes• “Comancheria”• Battled intruders
Use of Land & Water
Clothing• Breechcloth made of
tanned buffalo hide• Leggings• Buffalo robes• Boots & snowshoes• Painted faces RED• Braided Hair• Feathered Headdresses
Foods
• Buffalo – every part of it used, boiled, broiled, eaten raw or as jerky
• Nuts and berries• Drank warm animal blood
Homes
• Buffalo hide Tepees
www.texasbeyondhistory.net
Customs• Life centered around 2 activities: Hunting & War• Horse = most important possession (buried with
them)• Expert Horsemen
Use of Land & Water
• Fertile land for farming• Trotlines• Hunted Deer (most important animal)
Clothing
• Deerskin and fur capes• Shells • Tattoos• Men: Mohawks • Women: Long parted in middle
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids/caddo
Do you see any similarities with today’s styles?
Marek Adney of Austin, TX
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids/caddo/images/oldnew.html
Foods• CORN, ate beans, sunflowers,
melons, pumpkins, tobacco and squash
• Deer, buffalo and javelina• Used traps and trotlines
Homes
• Beehive shaped grass huts
• 25- 40 feet diameter. Up to 40 people in one hut
home.netcom.com/~wandaron/caddo.html
Customs• Huge burial mounds• Weepers• Confederacy with 2 leaders:
– 1 war & peace leader– 1 religious leader
• Made Pottery & wove mats from bamboo
www.texasbeyondhistory.net/.../who.html
Karankawas
Use of Land & Water
• Gulf of Mexico for food
• Dugout canoes
• LONG cedar bows
• 3 foot arrows made of sugar cane
• Weapons & tools from seashells or wood
Clothing• Nude or breechcloths and grass skirts• Sugar cane body piercings• Very tall and powerfully built • Coated bodies with alligator/shark grease
to ward off mosquitoes (VERY Stinky!!!)• Tattooed faces with blue lines and figures• Chokers of shell, glass, pistachio nuts or
metal
Foods• Oysters & Clams• Scallops & Fish• Turtles• Locusts• Prairie hens and quail
Homes• Winter months spent along coast: Small
huts of willow poles with draped animal skins and grass
• Summer months spent inland: several sticks with woven mats over it
Customs• Flattened babies heads with
cradleboards• Like other tribes they ate the
flesh of their enemies believing they would gain their enemy’s courage
• Karankawa = dog lovers• Wrestlers• Mitotes
"“Caw Wacham: Flathead Woman with Child”." Online Photograph. Britannica Student Encyclopædia. 2 Sept. 2008 <http://student.britannica.com/eb/art-94957>.
Coahuilticans
www.texasbeyondhistory.net
Use of Land & Water
• Very primitive• Spent most of their time in search of food• Nomadic
Clothing• Men: little or no clothing
(breechcloths)• Women: short skirts of buckskin• Small people• Black stripes painted over bodies &
faces• Earrings of shell & decorative
feathers
Food• Ate almost anything they could find and digest• Pecans, acorns, nuts, sunflower seeds• Mesquite beans & Prickly Pear Cactus• Rabbits, turtles, snakes, lizards, deer, dogs, horses,
pemmican (jerky made with meat/berries)• Spiders, ants, worms, rotten wood, deer dung• Fish and maggots!• Dirt!
Prickly Pear Cactus
Mesquite Beans
Homes• Brush Wickiups
• Circular shape made of willow bent into dome shape
• Covered with grass, brush or hides
www.TexasIndians.com
Customs• Shamans very important• Mitotes• Strong people known for
endurance
Mhln.com
Jumanos
Jumanos
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/kids/about_texas/regions/big_bend/big_kids/
Use of Land & Water
• Settled along Concho river and farmed
• Hunted and gathered• Little Rainfall• Irrigation
Clothing• Striped Tattoos on faces
• COTTON tunics
• Capes or cloaks
• Color feathers
• Yucca Sandals
Food• Pinon nuts, mesquite beans &
squash
• Pottery and gourds to cook
• Buffalo
Gourds
Pinon Nuts
SquashMequite Beans
www.glennwalter.com/honey_mesquite_tree.htm
Homes• Pueblos made of stone or adobe (sun-dried mud)• Square flat roofs partially underground
www.texasbeyondhistory.net/firecracker/index.html
Customs• Striped facial tattoos =
peaceful trader (Middlemen)• Special house for visitors• Heads bowed = “welcome”• Arrows were so well-made
Eastern tribes were eager to trade
Mhln.com
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Interactive Websites
• How many ways to use a buffalo: http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids/buffalo.html
• Buffalo Matching Game: http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/buffalo/matching/tail.html
• World of the Caddo: http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids/caddo/index.html
• Talking Hands http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/kids/talking/index.html
• Imagine It: http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids/imagine.html