Native Indians in Texas

The Era of Natural Texas and Its People is best known as...

• Spanish Explores made first contact

• American Indian tribes lived in Texas and lived off the land

• European Settlers started wars with Native Americans

American Indian

population was thriving in what years

• 1500 B.C.

• 1500 A.D.

• 1980 A.D.

Caddo Culture is best described as...

• male leadership

• female leadership (chiefs)

• absent leadership

"Age of Contact" Era in Texas was best known as...

• European settlers built colonies in Texas

• French made wars with Native Americans

• Spanish and French explores both made claims in Texas

Historians divide the past into Eras in order to...

• predict the future

• to record data about Texas

• to organize info about the past

How were the Coahuiltecan and Karankawa similar?

"Gulf Coast People"

• They were builders

• They hunted buffalo

• They were nomadic and lived by the Gulf Coast

How are Plains and Western Gulf tribes similar?

• Women leadership

• Hunter/gather and nomadic

• Stayed in same place

The Pueblo Region were sedentary, which means...

• They moved the village from place to place

• They stayed in one place

• They only hunted buffalo and deer

Plains Indians hunted buffalo and Puebloan Indians built Adobe house...

• True

• False

Falling temperatures thousands of years ago led to...

• First people of Texas coming from Europe

• First people of Texas coming from Africa

• First people of Texas coming from Asia