Native Americans

This Native American tribe lived in permanent villages in the Piney Woods area and the name Texas comes from their language evolving from "tay-yas" meaning friend.

• Tonkawas

• Caddos

• Comanches

• Atakapans

This tribe lived in the Texas Hill Country region. They hunted buffalo and lived in tepees.

• Comanches

• Kiowas

• Karankawas

• Tonkawas

Only tribe to perform the Sun Dance. They lived in the panhandle region.

• Kiowas

• Comanches

• Coahuiltecans

• Jumanos

This tribe lived along the coast, most likely practiced cannibalism, and Cabeza de Vaca traded with this tribe after their boat capsized.

• Coahuiltecans

• Karankawas

• Caddos

• Comanches

This tribe lived in adobe villages and were pushed towards the Rio Grande by the Apaches.

• Coahuiltecans

• Jumanos

• Atakapans

• Conchos

This tribe lived in South Texas and were peaceful hunter-gatherers. They ate whatever was available including mesquite beans, snakes, and armadillos. They hunted deer and trapped javelina in pits.

• Karankawas

• Tiguas

• Kiowas

• Coahuiltecans

Which tribe is NOT correctly matched with characteristics of the tribe?

• Comanches- Expert horsemen and warriors, nomadic, depended on buffalo, forced out Apaches.

• Tiguas- Settled in the first permanent Texas town, Ysleta. Their heritage was a mixture of Catholicism and traditional beliefs.

• Apache- Shorter and darker than most natives in Texas, farmers along the Red River

• Conchos- Group eventually merged with Jumanos.

Explorer that was a mapmaker from Spain and charted the Gulf Coast.

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Coronado

• Estavanico

• Pineda

Explorer that searched the Rio Grande area and celebrated a day of Thanksgiving in 1598.

• de Soto

• La Salle

• Onate

• de Leon

Led 4 expeditions in Texas and tried to find La Salle's settlement.

• Coronado

• Cabeza de Vaca

• de Leon

• Moscoso