October 11 2007

Daily Agenda• Quiz• Notes Puebloan and

Gulf Coast Indians• Finish Indian Books

Quiz – Oct 11

• Name the 10 Texas rivers we have reviewed.

Red River

Rio Grande

Sabine

Neches

Trinity

Brazos

San Jacinto

Colorado

Lavaca

Pedernales

Canadian

Nueces

San Antonio

Pecos

Guadalupe

Frio

Atascosa

Puebloan People

• Jumanos • Tiguas

Jumanos/ Tiguas

• Farmed• Hunted• Foraged – mesquite beans, prickly pear cactus• Different from other Indians, Men did most of

the farming

Shelter• Both tribes lived in Adobe Huts

Jumanos

• Farmed along Rio Grande• Name means “human”• “Striped People” – painted lines on their faces• No trace of them today but left pictographs on

cliffs around the Pecos/Rio Grande rivers

Tigua

• Oldest still living in TX today – El Paso area• Settled along Rio Grande – irrigated fields• Established the first permanent town in TX –

Ysleta• Kiva – room where religious ceremonies were

held

Gulf Coast Indians

• Coahuiltecans• Karankawa• Most primitive of all native tribes• Both lived in crude huts called wicki-ups

Coahuiltecans

• Hunter-gatherers• Least warlike• Best cases for Spanish missionaries• Consistent food was scarce

– Ate snakes, lizards, worms, snails, rotten wood– 2nd Harvest

Karankawa

• Lived mostly on Seafood• Very tall men 6ft+• Dugout logs and made canoes• Sticks pierced through lips• Cannibalistic• Dog Lovers• Died out as a result of diseases from Spanish

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