Southeastern

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Southeastern Gulf Cultures

• Section 2

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Southeastern Farmers
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Caddos

• Friends in the Piney Woods

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Caddos

• Most advanced tribe
• Farmers, not nomadic
• Fishermen
• Pottery
• Traders
• Tonkawa, Jumano
• Government
• Confederacies

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A confederacy is a group or association of
groups
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One leader handled religious affairs while
another leader oversaw matters of War and Peace
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Caddo Crops

• Squash
• Beans
• Corn
• Pumpkins
• Watermelons
• Peaches
• Tobacco

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Caddo Trading

• Salt, pottery, wooden bows for hides,
  turquoise, blankets

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Housing

• Dome-like
• Stakes covered with mud, twigs, and grass
• 50ft. In diameter
• Roundhouses

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Cherokees

• Late Arrival to TX
• 1820s
• To Oklahoma in 1839
• (Reservations)

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Cherokees

• From Southeastern U.S.
• Expelled Trail of Tears
• Lived East of Dallas
• Adapted well
• Roundhouses
• Hunted and farmed
• Oklahoma

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Wichitas

• Farmers of the Cross Timbers

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Wichitas

• Lived in present-day Dallas area
• Came from Kansas
• Farmers and hunters
• Made clay pots, tools, leather bags

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Wichitas

• Great hunters
• Horses
• Smaller Roundhouses

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The Wichitas were often in battle

• primarily with the Spanish

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The Alabama-Coushattas were another Southeastern
culture who ended their Nomadic life and
eventually lived on ReservationsLived in
Southeast Texas
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The Gulf CultureGatherers
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Atakapans

• Lived on the Texas Coast between Galveston Bay
  and the Sabine River
• Similar to the Karankawas

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Coahuiltecans

• Scavengers of the Desert

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Coahuiltecans

• Very primitive
• Desert-lands of South Texas
• Stayed in the South Texas Plain
• Isolated
• Nomadic
• Always in search of food !

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Food Sources For Coahuiltecans

• Rabbits
• Wild hogs
• Snakes
• Lizards
• Spiders
• Worms
• Termites
• Ants

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Bows and Arrows

• Tomahawks
• Grass Baskets
• No Pottery

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Shamans

• Witch Doctors with Unusual Healing Power
• -They Led Religious Ceremonies and Cared for the
  Sick

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Karankawas

• Cannibals of the Coast

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Karankawas

• Texas coast between Galveston Bay and Corpus
  Christi
• Nomadic
• No fishing hooks fish traps made of cane stalks
• Poles and Canoes (hollowed tree trunks)

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The Karankawas lived near forests in the Spring
and Summer , and moved to the sea in Fall and
Winter
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Food Sources

• Fish
• Porpoises
• Clams
• Oysters
• Seaweed
• Deer
• Rabbits

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Little clothing tall and muscular

• Insect repellant Alligator fat

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Some Believe the Karankawas were Cannibals

• Power and strength over enemies, not hunger
• - Roasted small bits of flesh