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October 4, 2007. Daily Agenda Turn in Homework Notes CH 2 Section 2 + 3 Notes Foldable Activity. Quiz – 10/3 Name the three groups of Prehistoric Texans What Dam created Lake LBJ?. Texas Rivers . Southeastern Indians. Caddo “Mound Builders” Most advanced culture
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October 4, 2007 Daily Agenda • Turn in Homework • Notes CH 2 Section 2 + 3 • Notes Foldable Activity Quiz – 10/3 • Name the three groups of Prehistoric Texans • What Dam created Lake LBJ?
Southeastern Indians • Caddo • “Mound Builders” • Most advanced culture • Confederacies – alliances of people or groups that unite for a common purpose
Food • Farmed • Hunted • Foraged for fruits and berries • Fished with TrotLines
Shelter • Dome Shaped Straw Huts
Customs • Women leaders • Cotton Clothes-------> farming • Pottery • Marriage Proposal – men left venison on family’s doorstep • Most Civilized • Caddo “Friend” = Tayshas--->Tejas--->Texas • What is the Texas state Motto?
Mound Building • For religious and burial purposes • Caddoan Mounds State Park in Cherokee CO. • Near Alto, Texas
Wichita • Lived between Trinity and Brazos Rivers • Wichita Falls Texas • Later moved North to Kansas ---> Wichita KS • Became integrated with Kiowa and other Plains Indian tribes
Food • Farmed – corn, pumpkins, squash, melons, beans, plum trees • Hunted • Foraged for fruits and berries
Shelter • Grass Huts • Tipis – cone shaped tent made of poles and animal skins • Tipis are mobile, ideal for traveling hunters
Customs • Women leaders • Friendly, traded with French • Raccoon Eyes • Tattoos on Men and Women
Atakapan • In Choctaw the name Atakapa means “eaters of man” – many believe it was a ritual to keep their enemies from joining them in the after life • Believed in head flattening - At birth mothers tied a thin board to babies forehead till it formed a slanting forehead.
Plains Indians • Relied more on Hunting – Buffalo • Nomadic – Tipis • Groups are: • Comanche • Apache • Kiowa • Tonkawa
Comanche • Buffalo Hunters • Nomadic Tipis • Hostile warriors • Best horsemen of all Indians • Scalped Enemies • War Paint • Ate Buffalo intestines with Feces still inside!
Apache • Name means “Enemy” • Nomadic, followed Buffalo • Crushed skulls of enemies • Stole Spanish mustangs – better equipped for long distances w/o water • Ate their own body lice • Farmed in villages when not chasing Buffalo
Kiowa • Buffalo • Nomads, tipis • Worshipped the Sun, did sundances after victories in war • Rabbit Society • Allies with Commanche
Tonkawa • Lived in Texas Hill Country • Mostly foragers…less Buffalo in area • Dome shaped Huts • Believe they came from wolves • Wolf Tattoos • 1st to use horses to hunt