Pueblo and Plains Cultures

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Pueblo and Plains Cultures

• Section 3

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Pueblo Culture
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Jumanos and Tiguas
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Jumanos and Tiguas

• Mountains and Basins Region
• Near the Rio Grande
• Sedentary farmers
• Used irrigation

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The Jumanos acted as Middlemen Traders
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Pictographs
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Adobe Dwellings, Pueblos
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The Plains Culture
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Tonkawas

• Central Texas
• Roundhouses, or caves
• Lost many people in battle with other Natives and
  Europeans

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Hunted

• Rats
• Rattlesnakes
• Skunks
• Turtles

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Bitter enemies with the Comanches and Apaches
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TonkawasTimid Warriors

• Later,
• Scouts for the U.S. Military

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ApachesGeronimo A famous Apache Chief
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Horse and Bison Important
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Horses were introduced into North America by the
Spaniards -

• The Plains Tribes later adopted them

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Afraid of ghosts
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Comanches

• Lords of the Southern Plains
• Plains of Texas
• Comancheria overlapped areas of other tribes
• Nomadic

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Comanches had Councils of older men who made
decisions
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Excellent Horsemen
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Bison hunts !

• jerky, bags, cups, ornaments, utensils, clothing,
  bedding, robes, skins/hides for tee pees

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Warriors,quick speed, lightening war,confusion
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Scalping
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Later, the destruction of Bison Herds by the
Americans forced the Comanches to accept
Reservation life
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Kiowas

• Texas Panhandle
• Nomadic
• Horse and bison
• Allied with the Comanches

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Tee-pees

• Tanned hides, twenty poles,
• 3 ft. opening, 25 ft. in diameter,
• 20 ft. high, fire inside, decorated outside
  of tee-pees with pictures

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Sun Dance

• Sun worship believed to bring happiness,
  plentiful buffalo, and victory in battle