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Karankawa and Coahuiltecan

Karankawa and Coahuiltecan. Karankawa. Hunter-gatherers Lived between Galveston and Corpus Christi Bay They were nomads or groups of people who moved from place to place During fall and winter months they lived near the coast During the spring and summer they moved away from the coast. Men.

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Karankawa and Coahuiltecan

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  1. Karankawa and Coahuiltecan

  2. Karankawa • Hunter-gatherers • Lived between Galveston and Corpus Christi Bay • They were nomads or groups of people who moved from place to place • During fall and winter months they lived near the coast • During the spring and summer they moved away from the coast

  3. Men • Were tall and muscular • Painted and their bodies • They loved to wrestle and have all kinds of physical contests

  4. Women • Single women had a single stripe of running across their face

  5. Their Life • Clothing • Men sometimes wore nothing or a deerskin cloth worn around the waist • Women wore skirts made out of deerskin or grass • Both painted their bodies with bright colors • To keep insects away they rubbed alligator/ shark fat and dirt on their skin.

  6. Diet • They used dugout canoes to fish • Depended on the bow and arrow to hunt • Hunted sea turtles and deer • Collected shellfish and bird eggs

  7. Their Life cont. • They got along well with the Spanish and were easy to trade with • Lived in small groups • Were protective of the swamps • Religion was headed by Shamans • practiced ritualistic cannibalism

  8. Coahuiltecan • Lived in southern Texas • Were hunter-gatherers and nomads

  9. Diet • Because the climate was very dry the Coahuiltecan became hunter-gatherers to support themselves. • deer and javelina or hogs • Mesquite beans • Ate practically everything because of the climate • Spiders • Lizards • Worms • Snakes • Ant eggs • Rotten wood • Deer dung • Fly larvae

  10. Culture • Mitotes or all-night celebrations • Occasionally fought small scale wars with each other over food sources • accepting of the missionaries and were easily converted to Christianity

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