Chapter 4 The Early People of Texas

The earliest Texans gathered foods such as fruit and corn.

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  2. Native Americans believed that the actions of shamans caused illness.​

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The Coahuiltecan lived along the Red River in East Texas.

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The Tigua adopted the European custom of tracing descent through the father, becoming patrilineal.

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The Puebloan group known as the Jornada originally lived in adobe houses.

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The Jornada still live in Ysleta, Texas.​

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The earliest Texans were farmers.

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The Tigua people arrived in Texas before the Jornada people.​

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The Pueblos lived in adobe houses whereas the Plains peoples lived in portable tepees made of tanned bison hides. ​

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The Tigua moved near present-day El Paso from New Mexico at the end of the 1600s.

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