Atakapa

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Atakapa

• Created By
• Lucero Sade Nieto-Ramirez and
• Kyra Lorraine McMahon

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I. Location and Government

• Atakapa could be found in the east Galveston
  Bay Texas as far as north present day Huntsville
  and Jasper.
• They lived in certain parts of this area.
• There were four or even five different parts of
  Atakapa.
• They lived in small little bands.
• They broke to small groups of family to hunt.

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II. How They Lived

• They trapped small animals for food.
• Woman having babies stay in huts by themselves.
• They hunted for deer , buffalo , and more.
• They also love to eat fish.
• They cooked birds eggs and ate them.
• Woman would get other certain plants.

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III. Homes

• They lived in tiny lodges made of tree branches.
• The huts were build on higher grounds.
• Sometimes will build huts with shells most of the
  time.
• The homes are like the nomadic Natives of Texas.

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IIII. Dress and Weapons

• Men wore breechcloths , woman wore skirts of
  Spanish moss and grass.
• They also use tattoos too.
• Atakapa painted there whole bodies.
• They carried the bow and arrow.
• They used long antler tipped spears too.

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IV. Beliefs

• The people believed in a God.
• They also were taught how to not ever do evil
  things.
• They thought good people went up and bad people
  went down when they died.
• They believed in a great rain and flood.
• People used herbs as they preformed rituals and
  cures.

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VI. Summary

• Their clothes and homes were a lot like other
  Natives.
• Hunting and gathering was the only way to get
  food.
• They had different kinds of beliefs also.