Native Americans Culture

-nomadic and hunters/gatherers

-sedentary, farmers, and lived in houses made of adobe

-Sedentary, food-rich environment and complex social systems

-Southeast, used dugout canoes to fish and hunt small animals.

-used every part of the buffalo, lived in tipis, domesticated animals before they were introduced to the horse by the Europeans-GREAT PLAINS

-Recorded their oral histories on their teepees, made beautiful crafts, developed a calendar, and most-feared group on the plains - ALLIES OF COMANCHE

-besides farming, they hunted, traded, and lived in beautiful painted adobe homes-TRADERS

-built dome shaped huts, organized government system led by a chief, women played important roles, greeted European with the word Tejas, which means friends

- An area that is used to identify and organize areas of the Earth's surface for various purposes.

Plains, desert, hills, Balcones Escarpment - All rivers flow through this region - mild climate - Wrong way rivers that take water from driest part of state to the wettest part of the state

Canyons, escarpments, plains, aquifers, plateaus - hot long summers, Cold Winters

River, deserts - hot days, cold nights, hot summers, cold winters

Karankawas, Coahuiltecans, Atakapan

Caddoes, Wichitas

Comanches, Apaches