Whispers in the Wind:

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Whispers in the Wind
Rediscovering Native Americans of Texas
Created By Carmen Phillips Krimmel Intermediate
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Comanches
Caddo
Jumanos
Karankawas
Coahuilticans
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Comanches(most feared tribe)
www.texasbeyondhistory.net
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Use of Land Water

• Dirt storms and tornadoes
• Comancheria
• Battled intruders

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Clothing

• Breechcloth made of tanned buffalo hide
• Leggings
• Buffalo robes
• Boots snowshoes
• Painted faces RED
• Braided Hair
• Feathered Headdresses

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Foods

• Buffalo every part of it used, boiled, broiled,
  eaten raw or as jerky
• Nuts and berries
• Drank warm animal blood

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Homes

• Buffalo hide Tepees

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Customs

• Life centered around 2 activities Hunting War
• Horse most important possession (buried with
  them)
• Expert Horsemen

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Caddo
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Use of Land Water

• Fertile land for farming
• Trotlines
• Hunted Deer (most important animal)

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Clothing

• Deerskin and fur capes
• Shells
• Tattoos
• Men Mohawks
• Women Long parted in middle

http//www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids/caddo
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Do you see any similarities with todays styles?
http//www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids/caddo/image
s/oldnew.html
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Foods

• CORN, ate beans, sunflowers, melons, pumpkins,
  tobacco and squash
• Deer, buffalo and javelina
• Used traps and trotlines

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Homes

• Beehive shaped grass huts
• 25- 40 feet diameter. Up to 40 people in one hut

home.netcom.com/wandaron/caddo.html
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Customs

• Huge burial mounds
• Weepers
• Confederacy with 2 leaders
• 1 war peace leader
• 1 religious leader
• Made Pottery wove mats
  from bamboo
  

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Karankawas
Karankawas
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Use of Land Water

• Gulf of Mexico for food
• Dugout canoes
• LONG cedar bows
• 3 foot arrows made of sugar cane
• Weapons tools from seashells or wood

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Clothing

• Nude or breechcloths and grass skirts
• Sugar cane body piercings
• Very tall and powerfully built
• Coated bodies with alligator/shark grease to ward
  off mosquitoes (VERY Stinky!!!)
• Tattooed faces with blue lines and figures
• Chokers of shell, glass, pistachio nuts or metal

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Foods

• Oysters Clams
• Scallops Fish
• Turtles
• Locusts
• Prairie hens and quail

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Homes

• Winter months spent along coast Small huts of
  willow poles with draped animal skins and grass
• Summer months spent inland several sticks with
  woven mats over it

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Customs

• Flattened babies heads with cradleboards
• Like other tribes they ate the flesh of their
  enemies believing they would gain their enemys
  courage
• Karankawa dog lovers
• Wrestlers
• Mitotes

"Caw Wacham Flathead Woman with Child." Online
Photograph. Britannica Student Encyclopædia. 2 
Sept.  2008  lthttp//student.britannica.com/eb/art
-94957gt.
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Coahuilticans
Coahuilticans
www.texasbeyondhistory.net
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Use of Land Water

• Very primitive
• Spent most of their time in search of food
• Nomadic

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Clothing

• Men little or no clothing (breechcloths)
• Women short skirts of buckskin
• Small people
• Black stripes painted over bodies faces
• Earrings of shell decorative feathers

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Food

• Ate almost anything they could find and digest
• Pecans, acorns, nuts, sunflower seeds
• Mesquite beans Prickly Pear Cactus
• Rabbits, turtles, snakes, lizards, deer, dogs,
  horses, pemmican (jerky made with meat/berries)
• Spiders, ants, worms, rotten wood, deer dung
• Fish and maggots!
• Dirt!

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Homes

• Brush Wickiups
• Circular shape made of willow bent into dome
  shape
• Covered with grass, brush or hides

www.TexasIndians.com
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Customs

• Shamans very important
• Mitotes
• Strong people known for endurance

Mhln.com
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Jumanos
http//www.tpwd.state.tx.us/kids/about_texas/regio
ns/big_bend/big_kids/
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Use of Land Water

• Settled along Concho river and farmed
• Hunted and gathered
• Little Rainfall
• Irrigation

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Clothing

• Striped Tattoos on faces
• COTTON tunics
• Capes or cloaks
• Color feathers
• Yucca Sandals

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Food

• Pinon nuts, mesquite beans squash
• Pottery and gourds to cook
• Buffalo

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Homes

• Pueblos made of stone or adobe (sun-dried mud)
• Square flat roofs partially underground

www.texasbeyondhistory.net/firecracker/index.html
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Customs

• Striped facial tattoos peaceful trader
• Special house for visitors
• Heads bowed welcome
• Arrows were so well-made Eastern tribes were
  eager to trade

Mhln.com
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Kiowa
Comanche
Wichita
Tonkawa
Caddo
Mescalero Apache
Jumano
Lipan Apache
Atakapan
Karankawas
Concho
Coahuiltecans
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Interactive Websites

• How many ways to use a buffalo
  http//www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids/buffalo.htm
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• Buffalo Matching Game http//americanhistory.si.e
  du/kids/buffalo/matching/tail.html
• World of the Caddo http//www.texasbeyondhistory.
  net/kids/caddo/index.html
• Talking Hands http//www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st
  -plains/kids/talking/index.html
• Imagine It http//www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids
  /imagine.html