The Indian's way-of-life Based on Geography

   GULF:

  The Karankawas 

The Karankawas lived in marshy land around the coast. They would work together to make pots, houses, tools, and baskets. They fished and farmed along the coast and away from the coast. Usually  travel to the wood s in search for berries and game around March. In the Winter, they would travel back the forest for nuts and more game. They fought the North American settlers around 1820. The Karankawas lost miserably and most of them were misplaced or killed. 

The Coahuiltecans

The Coahuiltecans lived in dry, desert areas that were not good for farming. Everyone in the tribe had an equal status; they all had an equal amount of food  and water and, if needed, shared with the rest of the group. Everyone had to work: the women took care of the camp, the men and some children hunted for food, and the elders did other tasks that need to be done. They used bows and arrows to hunt deer, buffalo, and javelina (wild hogs.) For food, they gathered cacti, mesquite, agave, worms, lizards, and various types of plants. They would travel all around Texas to look for food. When Texas became a state (1845), most of the Coahuiltecans had rather disappeared, killed from war, or died from European diseases.

SOUTHEASTERN:

The Caddos

The Caddos lived in a plain-type area which was good for farming. Consisted of 24 groups, most of the groups were apart of the confederacies. Two of those confeds were actually women. Most of the groups also lived in permanent villages. They were usually at war. They fought other tribes, confeds, and European settlers.  For food, they planted squash, beans, pumpkins, melons, sunflowers, plums, and cord. They fished with trot lines, hunted deer, bears, and turkey, gather berries and wild fruit, and traded with group all across the world. They were good friends with the French and supported the French when they were in war with Spain. Built dome houses made from mud, twigs, and straw. Disease struck and reduced their numbers from 200,000 to 12,000. The rest of the Caddos were relocated to Oklahoma.

JAY

In the Great plains region there are buffalos so they would use buffalo hide for their teepees.

The indians would depend on the buffalo for food in the Great Plains.

They would also use buffalo bones for their tools and buffalo hair for the string on their bows.

The Comanches and the Kiowa's migrate and follow the buffalo,

that is why they used teepees so they can pack up and move to another part of land easier and the teepees are more mobile.

HUDSON

rolling plains- not much vegetation, _____________ Kiowas- would live off buffalo, have easy to  dry, not good for farming _________________________take down and put up tepees, very nomadic

cross timbers, grand prairie,                                       Wichitas- build settlements out of wood and mud

blackland prairie                                                          hunt animals in forests, generally stay closer to

not much vegetation, good wood, mud                       one location instead of moving around a lot

small animals and big animals in forests